-db- Kanata No Astra -

“What if we’re wrong about everything?” she asked, the question slipping out before she could tether it. “What if the people who sent us out here—what if the lies are bigger than we think?”

“Then we’ll find a bigger truth,” he said. “That’s the deal. We don’t leave anyone behind. Not in space. Not in the past.” -DB- Kanata no Astra

The Echo of Nine

“Aries.”

“We won’t.” He kicked off a loose panel and drifted closer, spinning lazily. “Because you’re doing the math.” “What if we’re wrong about everything

They were lost. But they were lost together . We don’t leave anyone behind

She looked past him, at the endless black sewn with distant, cold stars. It was not the void that defined them. It was the small, fragile arc of light—the Astra —and the nine hearts beating inside it.