three days after the galley. the ocean footage. the breakdown. fifteen years of barrier methodology and one line of prose that undoes all of it:
“you push Ryland back onto the bunk”
RYLAND. if you know you know. if you don’t — go read from the beginning, you’ve earned this.
i cannot stress this enough.
and then rocky knocks on the airlock because of course he does.
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