Rupchandratar's Ending

Rupchandratar hurtles towards Europa. The only thing to keep him company is the constant drone of his pod's AI unit, whose two tasks are reminding him of his rapidly depleting oxygen and reciting him poems. As the globe of Europa approaches him, he dreams about its silicate surface, hiding a deep icy ocean of water. And an invertebrate lifeform he had termed as Jaljadugar, water magicians. This is Rr's ending. An ending of a life lived in the service of science, but a life incomplete yet.