The Past Is Long and Bitter

I saw the moon. A moon made bright and starkly white by the sun, like a bleached bone. Just then, I suddenly remembered a sentence I'd once seen while browsing the Knowledge Archive. It said that moonlight on the ground looked like salt scattered everywhere.

* Dan Heng x reader. Self-insert as you like.

* Note: Dan Heng's perspective is written in first person.

* Set in an imagined future. Some of the worldbuilding is inspired by Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem.

* I'm not an aerospace professional, so please forgive any errors.

Theme: You are clear and mysterious, like the shores of Lake Baikal.