A narrator reflects on a life shaped by betrayal, exploitation, and loss, admitting the temptation to rewrite themselves as a hero. After dying alone in deep space, they are reborn as something no longer fully human—an entity able to commune with the infinite dark. Transformed by that rebirth, they vow vengeance against the world that wronged them. The story promises an account of a catastrophic supernova that destroyed worlds, and of the many lives the narrator has lived since their first death, framed as a direct, unsettling address to the listener.