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Falling Up by aughisky
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026), Horizon (Video Games)
24 Jun 2026
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It was better - easier - to pretend not to see the deaths. The emptiness. The way birds fell out of the sky and how the air kept getting thinner and dustier.
She didn’t reach for her oxygen mask, not yet. She wasn’t done pretending that it was a normal December, as long as you didn’t think about how the Bay Area never used to be covered in a foot of snow.
Sixty years into the new century and the world had warmed up, flooded, clawed back, froze, and now before anyone could even attempt to wonder why it was so damn cold, everything became just fuel for unthinking, unstoppable, unending machines.
What a horrible time to turn twenty five, she thought, sucking on apple juice.
God, she missed apples so fucking much.
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When Eden bombs AT-5, an old earth ship moving aimlessly through dead space retrieves the now drifting SM-13 on a whim.
Far away, Ryland Grace wakes up to a dead crew and amnesia.
A god looks through a pinhole and does not understand, even though it wants to.
[Smushing Iron Lung and Project: Hail Mary's timelines together, with a bit of Project Zero Dawn thrown in, because Enduring Victory has Eva Stratt written all over it.]