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    The Blood Eel only knows pain and isolation in its world. Others have come searching for answers, only to learn in the end that death is the only one that matters. But then it meets Simon. As it unmakes him it catches a glimpse of something its never seen before, Happiness. It wants to learn about it, yet Simon doesn't know it. It goes to throw him away, but then he utters a prayer.

    Hail Mary, full of Grace

    The Blood Eel searches the cosmos and comes across The Hail Mary, occupied by Ryland Grace, and it decides this is what Simon was asking for. So it obliges.

    What follows is the story of two lost souls coming together in a cosmic event, learning together to live, to love, to be happy. All while The Blood Eel looks on, insuring it continues to learn, one way or another.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    “Big news! Statement.” Rocky chimes brightly.

    “Okaaaay. Lay it on me.”

    “Two things. First thing.” Rocky begins, holding one arm up, “Eridian crew return safe and sound from mission!”

    “That’s great!” He nods.

    Rocky holds up a second arm.

    “Second thing: Eridian crew find strange moon. No landmasses. Consisted entirely of an ocean of blood.”

    “That is...decidedly not great."

    (or: how two humans that have little trust in humanity learn to be comfortably human with one another.)

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    27 Jun 2026

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    At Shane and Ilya's magical outdoor wedding, Jackie watches Arthur, Amber, Ruby, and Jade take part in the ceremony while reflecting on Hayden's absence after the fallout at the cottage. During the reception, Rose Landry delivers a heartfelt best man's speech about Shane and Ilya's lifelong devotion to one another, the hardships they endured to be together, and the way they have always chosen each other above everyone else. As Rose celebrates Shane finally being able to live openly and happily with Ilya, Jackie is forced to confront the friendship Hayden lost through his own choices.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    “Sweetheart, your pretty little head is so silly. For every photocard I make of ugly hockey men, I make two of my gorgeous, radiant, pulchritudinous boyfriend. Sometimes three.”

    A smile breaks through the heated haze of Shane’s expression. “You’ve been using the thesaurus Dad got you for Christmas?”

    “I will beat Yuna Hollander at Scrabble one day,” Ilya declares against Shane’s hip bone.

    In the year between the Cottage and the Centaurs, Ilya misses Shane more than ever. Svetlana’s teenage cousin offers a coping method: Kpop-style Shane Hollander photocards to stare at all day long. It's a shame carrying around pictures of fellow hockey players is just not socially acceptable.

    …At least, not yet.
     
    (AKA: Ilya's mission to desensitize the hockey world to his Hollander fanboyisms, and the NHL players that suffer for it.)

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    17 May 2026

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    Right now, his eyes were locked on the Centaurs jersey with 81 on it, carrying the puck down the center and crashing into every single Metro on the ice. And every single one fell just as hard as Beaulier had.

    'Oh,' he thought vacantly, 'he really is gonna kill us.'
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    The knock-down drag out grudge match that is the first Ottawa-Montreal matchup of the season after the Metros abandon Shane, all from the eyes of a young Russian rookie playing for his old team.

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    17 May 2026