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    En route to Amphoreus, the Astral Express' transmitters pick up a distress call from a crew of spacers stranded on a small, uninhabited planet, and they make a quick stop to pick them up. Hoping to ease Sunday into Trailblazing with a small mission like this, Welt and Himeko suggest that he go to the surface and assist Caelus, March 7th, and Dan Heng with the rescue-- but when their transport car is caught in a gravity storm and crashes into the planet's surface, they learn that the planet is not nearly so uninhabited as it was centuries ago-- and they might have signed up for a far more extensive operation than they thought.

    Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025

    1. Day Eleven: Sleep deprivation, Whiplash, “Be careful, they’re watching us.”
    2. Day Twelve: Dislocation, Dizziness, “Don’t pass out on me.”
    3. Day Seventeen: Drug side effects, Desperation, "It's fine, I can walk it off."
    4. Alternate Prompts: Knife/Gun to the throat, “Get yourself out of here! I’ll be fine.”
    5. Day Nineteen: Broken bone, blood loss, "When I finish patching you up I swear to god I'm gonna kick your ass for making me worry about you."
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