'23kpc' Chapter 5-7: A Light in the Far-Off Distance

...visually and narratively

[Another Microsoft Bing AI image-generation product. Not exactly what I had in mind to illustrate Chapter 7 — this “tunnel” is much wider and higher than I’d envisioned. But it’s in the right ballpark. (I did some extra finagling in Lightroom to bring it closer to my, uh, imagined reality,) By the time I’d tuned my specifications this far, I ran out of …