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<lora:ROOMS_SW_Halls02_zit:1> This corridor should be bright, yet the light only exposes how far the ship has fallen. Illumination cuts across the walls like something clinical, revealing layers of neglect that no amount of maintenance can hide. Bulky panels hang unevenly, some forced back into place, others left open with wiring spilling out like exposed veins. Nothing feels sealed. Nothing feels finished. A large red service unit looms along one side, its surface battered and scarred. Its internal lights flicker with no clear rhythm, more like a failing pulse than a functioning system. The glow it casts feels wrong, too weak to reassure, too alive to ignore. Overhead bulbs hum and stutter, throwing shifting tones across the corridor. Cold white light bleeds into dull emergency red, creating a sickly contrast that never settles. Steam seeps constantly from vents above and below, thickening the air and swallowing the edges of the space. It moves slowly, clinging to surfaces, gathering into condensation that drips and spreads across the floor. Pipes run along the walls, their joints swollen with residue, their surfaces slick with moisture. Patches of moss cling in the damp, small signs of life that feel more invasive than natural. The floor is uneven and stained, marked by years of use that have left dark rings and pooled water in shallow depressions. Every step would echo too loudly here, the sound carrying through the narrow passage with nowhere to dissipate. The brightness does not make the space safer. It makes it harder to ignore how unstable everything has become. At the far end, a short stairway rises and vanishes into haze. The light fades there, swallowed by something thicker, suggesting deeper sections where the systems no longer hold and whatever keeps the ship functioning begins to break down completely.