We Keep Colliding Where Stars Shouldn't - a Sokeefe story

Some people are not meant to be compatible.
They are meant to be measured.
And found impossible.
The Starside Resonance Index exists to map minds the way astronomers map constellations - turning living thought into projected starlight, emotion into readable distortion, people into points of light that can be traced, compared, and quietly declared safe or unstable depending on how brightly they burn against the dark.
And for a while, it works.
Until Sophie Foster.
A telepath whose mind behaves like a sealed galaxy. Endless motion contained within careful boundaries, light folding inward before it can escape, emotion filtered so precisely it becomes something almost clinical in its stillness.
And Keefe Sencen.
An empath who does not simply feel emotion, but broadcasts it. Like solar flares spilling across a system, like gravitational waves that ripple through everything nearby, rewriting the emotional atmosphere of any space he enters.
The Index calls them misaligned.
A warning written in sterile language over something the universe itself seems unwilling to flatten into data.
A pairing that should collapse under observation, like two celestial bodies forced into the same orbit at the wrong velocity.
But when Sophie Foster and Keefe Sencen are placed within the same gravitational field, something begins to happen that the system cannot chart.
Because misalignment, it turns out, is not the absence of connection.
It is connection that refuses to stabilize into anything familiar.
And somewhere between collapsing stars and quiet voids, between control and chaos, between a girl who holds galaxies behind her brown eyes and a boy who turns feeling into cosmic interference...
Two minds begin to collide like binary stars that were never meant to share a sky, but do anyway, rewriting everything around them just by existing too close together.
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!characters belong to the amazing Shannon Messenger!