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    "Many stages in Eridian reproductive process. Rocky Adrian laying cycles finally sync up recently. So, Rocky Adrian think finally time for eggs. Adrian lay five eggs, very good. Only, strange thing happen. Rocky only lay one egg."

    “Oh,” I say. “That’s unusual, right?”

    "Very," Rocky hums.

    My throat tightens. "Does that mean there's something wrong? Are you sick?"

    Rocky makes a gesture I usually interpret as "not exactly". "Not sick," he says. "But doctors still worry. When Eridian start to make fewer eggs, this usually means laying period of life is over soon. Rocky very young for this. Rocky supposed to be in ideal time of life for laying. Rocky younger than Adrian, even." He shifts on three of his feet. Already, my mind is racing ahead, wondering -- "Doctors told Rocky to ask Grace, is this radiation side effect, question?"

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    29 Jun 2026

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    “Adrian will understand,” Rocky says confidently. “Will be excited to meet alien. Will be excited to meet person who brought me home.”

    “Yeah, and I'm excited to meet them too, but after that!” Is this a translation error? A cultural miscommunication? How is Rocky not getting it? “You're partners. They're not going to want some alien around while you're, like… going on dates and all that.”

    “Does not mean no time for Grace.” Rocky’s starting to sound frustrated. Part of me feels bad, but the rest is just as frustrated. “Why think this, question? On Earth, just abandon friends when have mate, question?”

    It's so clearly a rhetorical question, to which the answer is obviously supposed to be no, of course not. I freeze up anyway.

    or: rocky HATE amatonormativity

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    29 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    (This is a Sequel to 'Gaze of the Damned' please read that first)

    After saving their stars, Rocky and Grace set out to save all the others, each tied to their origins by a promise. Eva Stratt waits and Grace reflects on his current state of being.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    Eva Stratt wakes up to a call heralding the end of the world. It’s nothing new, the world has been ending since the sun started to dim but something about this is different, calling up ghosts from Eva’s past and faces she’d long since buried.

    Or: NASA finds an odd mass on the outskirts of the solar system. And it’s headed for Earth.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    “Grace! Why you no say plants are on Hail Mary, question?!”

    The question puts me on my back foot. Literally. I jog up to the door after my morning run to find Rocky waiting for me on my side of the house, suited up and ticked off. I rock back on my heel.

    “Huh?”

    “What you mean ‘huh’, is simple question! Why no mention plants on Hail Mary when almost die of no vitamins?!”

    “No bud, I heard you the first time,” I scoff, shaking my head ruefully. He gets under my feet, tapping at my thighs with his claws to annoy me while I toe off my running shoes.

    “Hey, quit— quit it! You’ve gotta be confused, the only plant matter on the Hail Mary was the food in my meals, and that’s years gone.”

    ——-

    Aka, Grace gets a bittersweet surprise several years after he settles into his life on Erid.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    My pride stings a little at being so underestimated by a species that couldn’t even outrun a particularly determined turtle if their life depended on it. Look, I’m no Sha’Carri Richardson, but I’m pretty proud of my seven-minute mile. I worked hard for it. I haven’t been able to handle myself like this since I was... well, since I left Earth.

    “Y’know what? Let’s settle this once and for all. I could use an endurance test anyway. Good for my cardio.”

    Dr. Bones perks up. “You’ll do a demonstration?”

    “Absolutely. Give me two rest days and a warmup, then I’ll show you what the average human athlete can do.”

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    AKA, Grace doesn't consider himself much of an athlete, but he's no slouch either. And he's got the physical prowess of his whole species to represent!

    The xenobiology team, on the other hand, is horrified to learn what a 'persistence hunter' is.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    Grace is a pebble. An alien pebble, but a pebble nonetheless. Rocky and Adrian know they're the only ones suitable for caring for said pebble. Said pebble has yet to get the memo. In unrelated news, Ryland Grace has a headache.

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    28 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 48

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    “Does Grace have soulmate, question? Grace said he had no mate.”

    Grace lets out a small—albeit a little sad—chuckle. “I’m pretty sure I don’t have one.”

    “What?!” Rock screeches.

    Grace flinches back a bit from the noise. At least Rocky has the gall to look a little sympathetic after his outburst.

    “Apology apology apology, just confused.”

    Grace nods in agreement. “I’m not too sure about it either, buddy, but people used to look down on me for it– no, not down,” he thinks, trying his best to pull at any other memories soulmate related of his that are willing to come to the surface of his mind, “They looked at me with pity,” He trails off.

    “No no no. Not right. Grace have soulmate, surely.”

    Grace laughs and shakes his head. “At this point, I hope I don’t have one. Imagine having the other half of you shot up into space before you could even meet them. I wouldn’t want to do that to them.”

    “But Grace go home now, Grace find mate!”

    --

    Or: You find your soulmate the first time you come in physical contact with each other.

    In all his life, Ryland Grace has never met his soulmate.
    He probably never will.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    The Eridians are Completely and Totally Normal about Ryland Grace. No, Yao is not at all worried about anything, why do you ask?

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    28 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 86

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    It's been a long road to Tau Ceti and the other end of Ryland Grace's Red string of fate. He thought he could be reasonably sure what waited for him at the end of it. However, it seems that the Universe has a few surprises still up Her sleeve.

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    28 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 83

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    It's Time Go

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    28 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 73

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    The Eridians are making preparations to launch their ship to go meet their boy at Tau Ceti.

    Meanwhile, on Earth, Grace drops some lore from before the Taskforce and plots shenanigans with his crew.

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    28 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 63

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    There's a party to celebrate the last night on the vat. Eva slowly begins to give herself a little grace.

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    28 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 84

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    Eva Stratt deals with anticipatory grief and misses the version of Grace that never would have left her of his own accord.

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    28 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 77

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    The Vat-Pack watches the last piece of The Hail Mary being launched up to the ISS to be assembled. Grace wishes he could comisserate about his latest zoom class with the Teaching Thrum.

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    Ilyukhina gives hugs, is blunt with Yao, and enables the deviancy of Youth.

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    28 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 91

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    Ryland Grace gets to eat some Nigerian food and suffers through a boring UN meeting. No, he's not forgetting anything important when summarizing his trip, why do you ask?

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    Carl is not happy. Eva Stratt is not happy. Why are they making this Grace's problem?

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    28 Jun 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 95

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    Staff meetings are a necessary evil. Ryland Grace would still prefer to Thrum them, please and thanks.

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    Everyone updates Stratt on their progress. She wishes they were less annoying about it. At least Ryland has snacks.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    Vat-com, question?

    Vat-com, statement.

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    "Ship-ettes" of life aboard the Vatt. Now with 53% more Gremlin!Olesya.

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    27 Jun 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 84

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    Checking in with the Eridians while they wait for their Space Blob to come Home.

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    27 Jun 2026

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