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    Eva Stratt spent launch day in a windowless room, hands clasped and head bowed in prayer to a God she stopped believing in when the sun began to die before her very eyes. She listened to the Hail Mary take off, listened to it through a broadcast on a pair of headphones that could never convey the weight of her choices. Could never communicate how much she had sacrificed to get here.

    Eva Stratt spent the day after launch on trial.

    And she spent the rest of her life atoning for her sins in the worst way possible.

    Living a good life.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    “What if other Eridians… want Grace gone. Question.”

    “Ah, that’s okay. Won’t be the first planet I’ve been kicked off of.”

    “Grace.”

    “It was a joke!”

    “Bad joke. Not funny.”

    “… it was a little funny.”

    There are unknowns on Erid, unknowns inside the Hail Mary, unknowns within the beings upon her. But little by little, second by second — they’re known.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    "Hold on, what about Dr. Pepper?" Grace said, refusing to follow with his feet planted, one last excuse why he wouldn't join her to save the world.

    Eva paused. She considered. If that was the only stipulation, she could work with that. "I can get you whatever beverage you like, Dr. Grace."

    Grace grinned for a moment, like he was enjoying a personal joke, then said, "My dog. Dr. Pepper is my dog."

     

    or: you don't even have a dog

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Up is down and down is up and Ryland Grace is not supposed to be here. Something has been wrong since the beginning. Something has been wrong since before the beginning.

    (Or: Grace wakes up on the Hail Mary with dirt underneath his fingernails. What happens next may or may not be a haunting, depending on perspective.)

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    05 Jun 2026

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    “Rocky, I’m here, okay? Come back to me, pal, please.”

    Of course I will, I think, drawn to that voice, that strange, wobbling voice, which I care about without knowing exactly why, and I should – it makes me angry, not knowing – I should know –

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