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    The figure that steps into the airlock is one Satoru recognizes by the way his hips move in mag boots and how his gloved fingers stretch as he feels along the wall.

    It’s the man he’s spent almost every day of the last ten years with. The one he’s kissed every which way—even upside down with the gravity off. They’ve ventured places only a handful of humans have ever gone. They’ve thrived together in the kind of isolation that fries others’ brains. They know each other better than most people know themselves.

    Closer now, and the front of that EVA helmet still reveals nothing; the place where a face should be is obscured by a sea of floating black hair.

    “Suguru?”

    Satoru and Suguru—best friends of more than a decade and soon-to-be-married, if Satoru gets his way—are the lone occupants of an orbital research station some hundred thousand light years from Earth.

    But they’re not as alone as they think.

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    22 Jun 2025