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  1. Public Bookmark 33

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    Simon dies and blinks into existence in the Hail Mary's airlock.

    Grace wakes up from dying with a hallucination passed out next to him.

    It's impossible, but it is.

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    06 Aug 2026

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    Simon has never been good with kids. When a child appears out of thin air in his submarine and the COI still refuses to pull him up, all Simon can do is protect her from the horrors of the ocean. Even if he knows there's not much hope for either of them to live.

     

    Ryland Grace is living his best life on Erid. He has a wonderful best friend, scientific colleagues who respect him, and students who adore him. Unless he decides to make the journey back to Earth, however, he doesn't expect to see another human any time soon. He certainly wasn't expecting to stumble upon a traumatized father and daughter welded into a blood-filled submarine.

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    04 Aug 2026

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    Simon thought he'd died. He remembered releasing that stupid black box, he remembered the blood and pain, he remembered Ellie's teeth cracking down on SM-13.

    Then he woke up, floating in that hateful submarine, in a pool of blood. Intact. Had that all been some terrible nightmare? Had he failed and was now doomed to die slowly in a portion of the ocean of blood?

    Then the speaker that shouldn't be working cracked to life.

    "Hello?"

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    Grace was content with how his life was going. Sure, he was light years away from Earth and all the other humans. But he was alive, he had a best friend and a whole planet that cared for his happiness and well-being. He got to teach once more and had a beautiful view that was created just for him.

    But he was lonely. He had Rocky and the other Eridians of course, but he could really do with a cat or something to cuddle and love. Not that anything like that was going to happen -

    Wait, why was the ocean bubbling? Was that a voice? Light? What was happening?!

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    03 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 87

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    “They burned it off,” Simon confesses in a halting breath. It’s enough to stop Grace in his tracks.

     

    “I guess… they didn’t want their property to have a mark of Eden. So they held me down and burned it off.” He sniffs, eyes trained on something far, far away. “Hurt like a bitch.”

     

    It’s like a dagger in his heart. Slowly, he pulls his lips away from the mark, just far enough to look his lover in the eyes. Simon’s jaw clenches, then slowly relaxes, and it’s like Grace can see the walls crumbling.

     

    “It really hurt,” Simon repeats, his voice cracking.

    Grace learns why Simon has a scar on his neck.

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    03 Aug 2026

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    "Anomaly Simon very friendly toward 'little rocks' but frequently forgets Eridians fully sentient and capable medical professionals, statement."

    Grace parses that. "He's not taking you seriously when you talk to him?"

    "Keeps trying to hug nurses, statement. Upsetting. Upsetting."

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    02 Aug 2026