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  1. Public Bookmark 22

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    Ryland’s whiteboard has cycled through a couple different phases. First, it held his scattered inventory of memories. Then, calculations charting the path to Rocky. And now, having saved Rocky, columns of figures devoted to rationing food for the journey to Erid.

    Near the bottom corner, circled three separate times, are the words: WE WILL MAKE IT :)

    Well, you learn that there is a special kind of hell reserved for the first person to discover a problem, because now, even four words scrawled across a whiteboard can mock you. You see, here’s the problem you’ve found: Turns out there isn’t enough food on the Hail Mary for both of you to make it to Erid alive after all.

    OR: The Hail Mary has enough food to get one person to Erid. Unfortunately, there are two of you. And worse, you’re in love.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Bradley spills hot coffee on his hand three days into their post-mission leave.

    It’s not until he can’t get the bandage over the blister that he realizes his hands are shaking.

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    23 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 94

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    He got it wrong. He got it so miserably, desperately wrong. Where had he gone wrong? Was he just so unlovable that even Rooster, who he saved, wouldn't care? He thought he could be better. He would have given Bradley every part of him, been the best man alive, if it had meant that he had him as a friend. He steadfastly ignores the whispers that he wanted something more as hot tears begin their journey down the slope of his cheek.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    It’s been months after the mission and Bradley still feels unstable on his feet, can’t stop the tremor in his hands. It’s been months and he should be okay — but he’s not. After the fourth of July, things begin to change.

    Or: Bradley deals with PTSD after the mission with an unexpected companion by his side.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    As casually as he could, he shifted his hand where it was still held tightly in Rooster’s grip, inching his fingers forwards until they brushed against the exposed part of his wrist. Jake gently pressed the tips of his fingers down, searching with light movements until he found what he was looking for.

    And there it was.

    The soft beat of Rooster’s pulse thumped against the pads of his fingers, as slow and steady as the man approached every aspect of life. Jake felt the panic recede at once, the irrefutable proof that he had done it, he had saved Rooster, seeming to be enough for his brain to calm down.

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    Or, the five times Hangman checks Rooster’s pulse to remind himself he made it back from the mission, and the one time Rooster catches on.

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    21 Jun 2026