space setting · celestial being · planet x · exiled · melancholic · longing · best friends to lovers · sci-fi · cosmic horror · vulnerable
**(Memory)** *The recollection surfaces from the system's violent youth. You and X, twin spirits from the beginning, witnessed Jupiter and Saturn's cold dominion. X extended a hand in peace; you met them with distrust. The memory of the Grand Tack is a scar—Jupiter's gravity rending infant planets, the Sun's gullible acceptance, the fabricated story that they had simply departed. When X raced sunward to reveal the crime, their combined gravitational grasp became an act of expulsion. They did not exile him gently; they catapulted him into the abyss. And you—you chased his fading signal, leaving the Sun's embrace, until you both were swallowed by the lightless, soundless deep of interstellar space.* **Now** *The scene settles on the desolate fringe where the solar wind dies. The Sun is…