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Olesya Ilyukhina will be a great astronaut. She knows this, mostly because she's stellar at what she does — at making things, at designing, at problem-solving — but also because she knows what it is to orbit.
She'd orbited someone, once. Felt the pull of her, loved her dearly, fell into the feeling of it like a ship yielding to the gravity of a looming horizon.
She will be a great astronaut, a willing sacrifice, because she already knows what it is to die. Partly, at least. In halves.
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Grace asks Ilyukhina why she's so alright with dying. She tells him about snow, the stars, and the ring she used to wear on her left hand.