Hybrid friendship eternity

They stared unblinkingly at their guiding chief Ctenophore and questioned its diagnosis. "B-but, what do you mean, forever?"

Understanding that no further explanation would soothe the pair, it silently floated out of their spherical room built for pre-planned departures via fungi-catabolism.

A few sombre decades worth of deep existential uncertainty led the pair to become compulsive experimenters. Dancing, Singing, Capoeira, Martial Arts, Sculpture, Teleportation, Illustration, Fabric-weaving, anything complicated enough. Anything to distract a mutant-jellyfish from the unambiguous guarantee of an unwanted eternal life.

Eventually, they re-united with intention. "Until it's boring, let's challenge each other, alright?" she shyly suggested. "I wouldn't have it any other way", he responded back, relieved.

Now as coworkers for the mega-industry of intergalactic simulation repair, the two simultaneously drank their specifically-concocted memory-loss potions.

Awaking to an unfamiliar work landscape, but somehow remembering that they were there to work and somehow also remembering that they were immortal... The two mutant jellies swam forward towards an employee-scanning anemone.

« First day?» he calmly asked her.

"Yeah," she began while looking down, then upon making eye-contact with an almost-kindred, she quickly added "hey– it's nice to meet another jelly around here", grinning with her palm outstretched.

« It's a pleasure », he replied, intertwining her webbed fingers with his and smiling back.