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Trent and Raahi were the closest pair of friends in primary school. Even after going to different secondary schools, they essentially grew up together and stayed in touch. But nobody expected them to survive the separation that three years of university and a different solar system would bring.

Life had different paths set out for each of them. Raahi had first travelled away for university in another country, only coming home for the long summers during which Trent was the busiest, helping out in his father’s workshop. The boys were still friends even if they didn’t see each other often.

When Raahi’s mother was selected to become a legislator for millions of people in humanity’s new colony. Raahi was expected to follow in her footsteps. Trent understood that. He would have bought a ticket for the same flight that Raahi was expected to go on but that would have cost a lot of summers of hard work.

Nobody expected their friendship to survive that separation. If they were pen pals it would take about four years for a message to be delivered. They would be millions of miles apart. But that didn’t mean they’d stop being friends. They’d stop being friends when one of them got left on read.