“The first thing I remember is being weak, so weak that some days I couldn’t even get out of bed. On one of those days, I promised myself that I would never be weak again. And then I stood.”
Reignite - The Expanse Fanfiction
Remember the 2-4-7. It was a rallying cry for the people of The Belt for years. Two hundred forty-seven children taken from Ceres, Eros, and the like, willingly given up by their parents to a research corporation in hopes they could cure them of diseases they had contracted through life in low gravity. However, the parents were lied to, and their children disappeared with the corporation.
Maris DeGraaf was one such child.
Adopted by Earth’s ambassador to Mars, and goddaughter to the fiery Chrisjen Avasarala, Maris knew a life few other Belter children ever would, full of comfort, joy, and everything money could buy. But she was ever aware of her origins, and vowed to make it right one day.
A gifted and determined student, she graduated with advanced degrees in medicine, genetics, and biology, and took her skill set to space, first to Ganymede and then to Ceres, where she opened a clinic and began to help those who could not help themselves. But despite being born on Ceres, Maris was still very much an Earther in the eyes of Belters, which was a danger in itself.
When the Canterbury is destroyed, she is thrown into a collision course with the survivors, where her sins, unintentional as they may have been, and her true parentage put her in complete opposition of everyone she has ever cared for.
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