Rational Existence

Trapped deep in an underground testing facility, freedom was a dream for Royce. Life has been daily rounds of fighting to survive and hopeless agony for years. But all of that is sufferable, worthwhile, because those Royce loves are safe and free. That's all that matters.

That's not all that matters, not to the residents of the Rocky Mountain Base. Especially Catro, a giftless Andromedan Ancient suffering from a life long existential crisis. But then something happens to him and everything ...