Mickey7

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination, sexual content, illness, death by suicide, and death.

Back in the dome, Cat and Mickey7 are chastised by Marshall for the deaths of Dugan and the other two security officers. Mickey7 defends himself by arguing that they got the specimen of the creeper, but Marshall is still upset. He also accuses Cat of having sex with Mickey7, a misogynistic comment that irritates her. Cat and Mickey7 eat together until Nasha arrives. She sits with Mickey7 before he goes back to his room.

Mickey7 tells Mickey8 about what happened on the mission. He also confides that he suspects the creepers are after their metal, as Niflheim is a metal-poor planet. Mickey7 falls asleep in bed next to Mickey8. He has a dream that he has often: He’s back on Midgard camping in the woods, and he makes a fire before attempting conversation with a giant caterpillar that cannot communicate with him. He then is Mickey2 again, dying horribly in space, though he isn’t dead and cannot scream. He wakes up in a cold sweat.