Moth-y-paintbrush

holly & holland

Found this ref it’s so them

Hail Mary, full of grace.

But then I saw some post about the timeline set for the story and holy crap we were almost the same grade that Grace taught in the timeline (I've seen differences about which grade he actually teaches in various fics but we were definitely in middle school).

It hits hard.

Nine days before the launch, just before the explosion, Grace was thinking about his children and missing them. Now it feels so personally it's making me sick.

I hadn't understand its impact because I hadn't read about Grace turning around choosing death for himself like there had been no other choice, hadn't followed Grace searching 5 degree by 5 degree for a reflected light signaling the position of Blip A, had't feel the uncertainty when Grace jumps from the Hail Mary into the absolute nothingness in his EVA suit with only his tether to reach Rocky's ship not knowing if Rocky was still alive.