But the human body was absolutely not designed for deep-space travel.
The vacuum hit her instantly. The ambient pressure outside her skin dropped to zero, and the boiling point of the fluids inside her body aggressively plummeted.
"Mmph—!" Valerie choked, her hands flying to her throat.
The saliva on her tongue instantly boiled into a thick, stinging vapor. The moisture in her eyes rapidly evaporated, making it feel like someone had just rubbed hot sandpaper across her corneas. Her lungs violently collapsed inward, utterly starved of the oxygen they had just been breathing a second ago.
*CRACK! SSSSSS!*
The capillaries in her nose and eyes burst. A fresh wave of bright red human blood erupted from her face, but it didn't drip. In the zero-gravity vacuum, the blood floated upward into spherical, floating droplets before the freezing ambient temperature of the Juncture instantly flash-froze them into tiny red crystals.
[CRITICAL WARNING: ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE ZERO.]
