ThatOneRandomPerson

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    Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.

    “Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”

    Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.

    The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Staff meetings are a necessary evil. Ryland Grace would still prefer to Thrum them, please and thanks.

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    Everyone updates Stratt on their progress. She wishes they were less annoying about it. At least Ryland has snacks.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    “Are we friends?” Grace asks. The question doesn’t feel quite right. “Or, I guess… were we friends?”

    Yáo hums, thinking. “Yes,” he says, after a moment’s contemplation, “I would like to believe that we were - are - friends.”

    Grace turns his head, then, and Yáo knows exactly where he’s looking. “Are you two friends?”

    “Yes,” Yáo’s voice is lower this time, tinged with an emotion Grace can’t place. “We are good friends.”

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    Grace and Yáo both wake up prematurely. Grace grapples with trying to remember his purpose. Yáo grapples with the absence of Ilyukhina.)

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    07 Jun 2026

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    “Robot,” Yào calls out. “How long — how long was I asleep?”

    The robot whirrs. “You have been in a medically induced coma for — one hundred — eighty — one — days,” it reports.

    Yào’s not as quick at theoretical maths as Dr. Grace or Ilyukhina, but he’s pretty handy with the normal stuff. One hundred and eighty-one days is … just shy of six months. He runs the numbers again, counts them out slower in his head. It’s the same result.

    It’s not enough time. It’s not nearly enough time. It’s not even enough time to be completely out of their fucking solar system.

    Yào wakes up early.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Astrophage, Ilyukhina thought, was not going to be the death of them all.

    But rather, one Ryland Grace and his new pet alien-rock friend.

    -----oO*Oo-----

    Olesya Ilyukhina and Commander Yáo Li-Jie survive their voyage into space. This changes everything.

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    01 Jun 2026