Fics like Aqua Regia

It's four years into their six-year trip to Erid when Rocky insists Grace make a pit stop to visit a moon that definitely wasn't there when the Eridian crew was on their way to Tau Ceti decades prior. Impossibly, tucked into the trunk of a crimson tree, inside a shredded excuse of a submarine at the bottom of a blood ocean, is a man. And Grace can't just leave him there. Simon should be dead. But he isn't. As a fulfillment of his own plea to live in the last dying gasps before he drowned, the blood tree kept him alive. If you can call unfeeling, unending stasis "living". After eons of darkness, a light breaks through, he's torn from the tree, and Simon finds himself awake aboard a new space vessel with a singular human man and a very, very strange little rock. Faced with dwindling food supplies and a ship experiencing issues during a trip it wasn't designed to make, Simon and Grace will have to figure out how to make this new normal work and learn how to balance one's ache for companionship with the other's decades of mistrust.

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