Chapter Six [Text]

[thebestseller]

Who: Richard Castle and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Windrose if you really want?
When: RIGHT NOW

It was my birthday on the first of the month, and normally I'd have celebrated it, but having my first birthday here and this planet having deadly air have made me want to come clean about something.

I think I might be dead back home.

I don't know for certain, and I never will know unless someone from back home shows up AND they're from further down my timeline. Which is looking less and less likely the longer I'm here.

I'm not asking anyone else to share if they're in the same boat if they don't want to, but I'm still figuring out how to process it, and like I said, it's been hitting me hard lately. So I had to get it out somewhere.

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[faithfulwisdom]

I know I am dead in my home. It is a strange thing to contemplate and, in truth, I am still not sure what to think of the entire situation.

I confess I will be interested to know how this missive works for you. It is always something of a dilemma, is it not? You hardly wish to add the news to every introduction. But, then, there really is no good time to explain such things, is there?

[thebestseller]

No... there really isn't a good time to talk about it. Or even think about it, honestly. I've been holding it in for months now because that's not exactly a good conversation starter, you know?

[faithfulwisdom]

Precisely. It is an absurd problem to have, truly. But I suppose the entire situation in which we find ourselves is absurd. Perhaps we should expect no less.

[There is a short pause before the typing resumes.]

If you have died, would you have regrets? You needn't answer if you don't wish to.

[thebestseller]

It's the truth. "I might be dead" is no less absurd than the idea of being in a space reality show. Hell, maybe they pick people like us on purpose. Maybe this is the in-between, before we move on to the afterlife.

I would have, definitely. I was going to get married. I've got a family I'd be leaving behind.