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Hearing the waver in his voice makes Ryland’s own eyes sting. Christ. He loves this man so much. “Yeah. We’re going to be fine. And I’ll go back to teaching, and you’ll be an aerospace engineer, like you always wanted. No matter what happens, it’s you and I, together.”
Simon’s face pinches. Tears splash on his cheeks, and Ryland smiles and gently wipes them away with his thumb.
“I really want to believe that,” he chokes.
“Believe it when it happens,” Ryland whispers. “And until then, I’ll believe it enough for both of us.”
Simon Hyun, the back-up pilot for the Hail Mary, dies three days before the ship is set to launch in an unfortunate on-site explosion. Years later, a strange, mutated human known only as Simon washes up on Erid's shores, covered in blood.