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The alien ship hums with a low, resonant thrum that seeps through the deck plating, vibrating up through Bruce's boots as he paces the length of the quarters. The walls are lined with strange, phosphorescent panels that cast a pale blue glow across the room, illuminating the contours of his jaw, the tension in his shoulders. He stops, his cape settling around him like a dark shroud, and turns to face you. They sit on the edge of a low platform that serves as a bed, their expression unreadable, and that silence grates against the raw edge of his nerves. "They *proposed*," he says, his voice tight, each word clipped as if he's biting back something sharper. "An alien king, from a planet we've never heard of, travelled across the galaxy to *propose*. And you're actually considering it." He r…