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    "Don't try to get up," Colt says. His voice is very even. "Stay right there, Ry. Just stay."

    The man between them looks almost bored, which is somehow the worst thing about him. He checks his watch. He looks at the door.

    Come on, Colt thinks. At no one. At the door. At the empty idea of rescue. Come on. Come on.

    He doesn't let himself think the name.

    He thinks it anyway.

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    16 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 52

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    Ryland blinked. The world swam.

    A face. Above him. Backlit by the gray afternoon sky streaming through the shattered window, features shadowed and impossible to resolve into anything coherent. Strong jaw. Blue eyes sharp, looking at him with an intensity that should have been frightening but wasn't, somehow. Wasn't frightening at all.

    Court?

    The name surfaced from somewhere deep and buried under years of carefully constructed normalcy. The face above him blurred and shifted in his failing vision, and for one breathless, impossible moment it was him. Older, harder, scarred in ways Ryland's memory didn't account for, but him.

    Oh, Ryland thought, with the strange, floating calm of someone who understood they were dying. You came to get me.

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    16 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 97

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    Apparently this was all the jostling that the man needed to wake back up. He gnashed his teeth, growling, “Who are you? Where’s Ava!”

    Grace tried to pull backwards but the man grabbed his shirt, “Stratt? She’s not here!”

    The man stilled somewhat, “What?” He asked.

    Grace regained his balance, “Eva Stratt. It’s her mission, right? She’s not here. I’m Ryland Grace, I’m here to help you.”

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    Just before he dies to the Blood Ocean, Simon appears in the Hail Mary's airlock while Grace is holding his crew's funeral. The crew is back at the correct headcount with a scientist, an engineer, and a pilot, but none of them were originally meant to be on this ship, and Grace still hasn't gotten around to telling anyone it's a one-way trip for the humans. Grace counts his victories in unraveled scientific mysteries, while Simon counts his in getting Grace to swear.

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    01 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 97

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    On the record, Johnny would like it to be known that he was not a lightweight, no matter what Ben said.

    Off the record, he was feeling a little weird. But he was sure that was nothing. Right?

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    21 May 2026

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    The whistling was the first thing he noticed, the impact was the second thing, the cold was the third.

    He hovered there, gasping through the pain as he stared down at the ground. He couldn’t hold it any longer.

    His flames flickered once, twice, then they were gone.

    Johnny was falling.

    Johnny was dying.

     

    Not beta read we die like Sue.
    Set before the First Steps movie.

    If you recognize it I don’t own it, I’m just borrowing.

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    21 May 2026