ItsTheMeep



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    The Eridians had made little sense of it when it was first detected, resonating from within an astrological body only a fragment of light years away that had—apparently, impossibly—not been there before. A crooked moon with no star, they’d said. No planet. And, from it, this little noise that had reached the Eridian transmitters, quick as a heartbeat. Staggering like a gasp of breath.

    A sign of life, crying out into the universe for help.

    And Dr. Ryland Grace, in all his cosmic stupidity, followed it.

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    OR: a cosmic anomaly brings two lost and broken souls together and reminds them of what it means to be human.

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    28 Jul 2026

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    “Simon?” Grace tries out the name, the syllables rolling of his tongue. To his surprise, Simon looks up. He looks scared and confused, regardless of how harsh his bark may come off or unnatural his eyes are. Grace longs to help him.

    “Can you c’mere, please? So I can show you proof I’m not lying to you?” Grace asks with a new wave of patience. Simon looks away and doesn’t move, choosing to glare at the wall.

    “I don’t bite,” Grace reassures.

    “What if I do?” Simon warns, tone too soft to be threatening.

    Grace sits down with a grunt, crisscrossed on the floor from where he stood with the laptop settled on his lap.

    “Then that’s a risk I’ll just have to take.”

    -Dialogue from Chapter 4

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    Ryland Grace has been living happily on Erid the past year, or so he believes. He loves his comforts and small wins of his everyday, but when he’s alone it feels as though something’s missing.

    Maybe this hard around the edges and mysterious stranger, the only human he’s made contact with in years, will become a friend.

    Maybe something more, as his foolish soft heart always holds onto hope.

    Art now in chapter 5 as a treat while I write more ❤️

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    28 Jul 2026

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    Simon was sure he was dead at first. That was the only possible option after being sent down in the SM-13. It was supposed to be a suicide mission and at the end, he knew that. After the SM-13 explodes with him inside, he opens his eyes to find out he's on the Savior Grace, a ship owned by an alien species that call themselves eridians. The eridians treat him well and he can't understand what they could possibly want from him. He knows repayment is due.

    And he knows it's coming soon.

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    27 Jul 2026

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    Simon waited.

    Waited for them to apologize. Tell him there’s nothing they could do. That he wasn’t worth the trouble or resources, that he wasn’t worth the time.

    But that never came.

    Instead, after a second Grace came back on the line, his voice sounding determined now. “Alright,” he said. “Hang tight.”

    Simon blinked slowly. “What?”

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    21 Jul 2026

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    Ryland Grace can come to terms with being tranquilized, crammed into an aluminum tube strapped to two million kilograms of astrophage, and launched into deep space only to find his soulmate waiting on the other side.

    Being at the opposite end of that equation when it breaks the known barriers of special relativity is a lot harder to deal with.

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    A dead man washes up out of Ryland Grace's own personal sea.

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    18 Jul 2026