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He knew that sound.
A proximity alarm.
The last time he heard that sound the universe changed. All of it. Last time is was the Blip-A.
"... Rock?"
[Grace.]
Grace stayed perfectly still, fingers poised over the laptop perched in his lap. He was wire taught, listening. The sound of the alarm didn't go away. It kept repeating.
"... I'm the first one you've ever met out here? Right? Forty six years?"
[Forty-six Earth years. Grace first.]
"... you don't think they sent anyone after you?"
[...]
"Rocky?"
The Eridian scrambled, moving so fast on all five limbs that is spurred Grace to tumble over himself to follow as Rocky swung from handhold to hand hold in his hurry up to the cockpit. Grace hurried to follow, stumbling over objects and skidding into walls in his rush. His glasses swung precariously from an ear and Grace pawed to try and catch them from flying completely away from him. He all but threw himself into the pilot's chair as Rocky hauled himself into the xeonite domed space they had built out for the Eridian.
[Grace, what see, question?]
"Hang on! Hang on, bud!" Grace's hands flew over the various keyboards, shifting the codes and inputting commands to tilt the video.
[Grace, hurry, hurry, hurry! What see, question!?]
The feed shifted and the screens rippled into clarity, the alarm still sounding off.
[Grace?!]
"... it's another ship." Grace rasped out.
[Eridian, question!?!]
"No... no it's something else..."