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Titanian Hideout
Alice hadn’t been able to sleep most of the night. She woke up over and over, each time with a different dream of what it would be like to reunite with Marick again. He was there, right there, as if she could just reach out a hand and grab his, pulling him to her.
In one dream, she’d been back in their kitchen, watching the spaceships soar through the air as they arrived to bring in new recruits. It hadn’t been his turn yet, at that point, but he had the yearning, the itch to explore space, to be up there with the best of them. She had wrapped her arms around him and kissed the back of his neck as he sat there, watching.
“You’ll make it,” she told him. “You always achieve whatever you set your mind to. Got me, didn’t you? And I was way out of your league….”
He turn
