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A Rollercoaster of a Retrospective by Just A Kid Icarus (Lightningstrike5757)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
26 Jun 2026
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"Come on Carl, just one thing! Lokken just got her future memories! Why can't I just know one little thing." Ryland was not above whining to get what he wanted. Everyone kept acting weird once they got the time travel memories! The only explanation was that it had to do with the Hail Mary. He wanted to know why.
"You know the project is going to succeed. Is that not enough." Carl, the traitor, raised an eyebrow like he wasn't affected by Ryland's pleas.
"Ok but what do they find? What are the astronauts going to find up there that we can't replicate?" Ryland asked for the umpteenth time. They were all so tight lipped about it! If they already had the answer why don't they just implement it now, why wait almost thirty years?
Carl just laughed, again, like he always did. "You know, you'd already know that if you remembered it," he teased.
Ryland huffed. Fine then! "When I get my own time-travel memories I wont tell you everything I know, see how you like it!"
Weirdly - It was never anything normal with these people! - Carl just smiled, but it didn't reach his eyes. "I can't wait."
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The Petrova Task Force travel back in time one after the other. They forgot to invite Ryland.
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27 Jun 2026
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Ch1
YES LETS GOOOOORight from the start, he was a fundamentally good man.
“Easy for you to say when you’re not the one being murdered!”
She flinched back from the door at the memory, his scream ringing in her ears. If she went back to Scyther, gave him no choice, she could take him and make him analyse the astrophage. She could slip some hints to another team, convince them to investigate Venus and find out how they breed. It’d be someone else who became the worlds leading expert on astrophage - It would always be astrophage, she would pass no other name to the world leaders - and Dr Grace would be none the wiser. He would just be another face in the crowd. He’d be one out of a million, but he’d be safe.
“Should I really do this?” she asked the empty air.
The air chuckled, wheat-gold hair and sky blue eyes crinkled in amusement. “You already know the answer, you always have. You never needed my advice,” he teased, voice lilting in the same musical tones that underpinned the words of an alien friend.
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A Second First Contact by verynotokay
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 Jun 2026
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Sixteen years have passed since Grace arrived on Erid and a new ship has been spotted in the 40 Eridani system, not from Erid and not from Earth. When Grace finds himself an interstellar ambassador between the Eridians and these new aliens, uncomfortable questions arise about whether Grace could ever really be considered Eridian, and whether he might be happier somewhere else...
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25 Jun 2026
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Ch6
FRICK I LOVE THISSSSSSS
PTECHROMIA (expresses through colour) meeting ERIDIANS (expressing through sound) and Grace(tm) the guy that can hear and see limitedly lol"Is your program malfunctioning?" Rocky asked bluntly, waving his image-to-texture camera around in annoyance. "This is nothing to me. Random static with random colors." The other two people with image-to-texture cameras signaled their confused agreement.
"I think they're celebrating," Grace said. "They're moving around energetically. And they can change the color of their skin! That's what's making it so hard for you to parse. They're flashing a ton of different colors with no pattern. There are a few Earth animals that can change their skin color, chameleons and some kinds of octopus, as a way of hiding from predators. It’s very rare and very cool to see.”
“Doesn’t human skin also change color?” Rocky asked. “You said your skin turns red when you are hot or embarrassed.”
“That’s different,” Grace said. “That’s involuntary, it’s just a side effect of blood moving around. This appears to be much more pronounced and intentional and fast. That has to be how they communicate in colors! They must have a really precise control over it to use it that way. Wow, that’s gorgeous.”
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Advection Fog by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 May 2026
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“You can't be serious?” Carl asks.
“I don't do jokes. And someone has to keep an eye on him.”
He groans and runs a hand over his face.
“But why me?” It won't only be him, he knows. He'll have his team with him, a few trusted agents who he has worked with for years (and who are currently sneakily accepting chocolate covered peanuts from the teacher.)
But this still feels like a personal blow somehow. Did he do something wrong? Is this what he has been reduced to? A glorified babysitter for a scatterbrained teacher?
There is that half smirk on her face, the one that either enamors you or makes you shit your pants, depending on whether or not you are on her good side.
“You told him your name.” Her answer throws him and she can tell. He opens his mouth but she carries on. “Your real name.”
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Carl is less than thrilled when he gets reassigned to babysit a teacher playing around with three dots in a glorified warehouse.
But at least this job should be rather uneventful.Boring even.
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24 Jun 2026
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You can't be serious?” Carl asks.
“I don't do jokes. And someone has to keep an eye on him.”
Carl groans and runs a hand over his face.
“But why me?” It won't only be him, he knows. He'll have his team with him, a few trusted agents who he has worked with for years (and who are currently sneakily accepting chocolate covered peanuts from the guy.)
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Watch your Colors Grow by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
23 Jun 2026
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That is how it starts.
My pebbles are all good kids and a tight knit group. There are rarely fights or tensions and I can honestly say that they are all friends.
But Sam, showing all of them up with a gift that made Teacher Grace smile softly with tears in his eyes?
That means war.
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A lucky find leads to lots of gifts for Teacher Grace from his precious pebbles
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- Part 5 of Teacher Grace's Extraordinary Curriculum
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24 Jun 2026
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Stone after stone after stone wanders into the little transfer hatch. My collection grows with every day. Some of the gems repeat themselves and I’m afraid I might run out of comparisons but somehow I never do. Every stone is unique and every time I look at one my mouth forms the words before my brain knows what it’s going to say.
One day Len puts something into the hatch and when I open it on my side I stop in my tracks.
A normal rock, not a gemstone. It is a nondescript brown and not very big. The only thing that keeps it apart from other rocks is its smooth surface and unique shape. It is almost perfectly round. That’s probably why Len mistook it for a gemstone and brought it. To them it looks like all the others.
“Is it pretty?” they ask and I finally take it out of the hatch. It has cooled down enough. “What color is it?”
I hold the nondescript and ordinary stone in my hand and feel warmth in my heart.
“It is perfect.”
I take a closer look at the color and smile.
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Once he was in a room where she wouldn't be able to hear him, Branch dialed Floyd's number.
“Hey, you're on-”
“Poppy doesn't know I'm Bitty B, and I just found out she writes fanfics about him- me!” Branch burst out in a panic.
It was silent before there was a roar of laughter from over the phone.
Branch sat on the ground, pressing his face into his knees. “You're hanging out with John, aren't you?”
There was a distant ‘fanfics!’ before he heard Floyd again.
AKA, Poppy writes BroZone fanfics. This causes some confusion.
EDIT: NOW WITH A SECOND PART
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23 Jun 2026
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FUCK (this is cute as hell)
Gimme!” John called out, voice coming out more clearly as he took the phone. “I can't believe you haven't told her! This is hilarious!”
“I thought she knew!” Branch defended himself. “Should we break up?!”
“Whoah!” Both of his brothers exclaimed.
“Absolutely not!” John yelled into the speaker.
“There's no need to be hasty,” Floyd tried to say calmly.
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stars and constellations by DragonsGirl572
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Cyberverse
05 Dec 2024
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“Can I say something?”
“Of course,” Optimus responded.
Bee smiled, “I don’t know what I’d do without you.”
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- Part 4 of CyberCember 2024
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23 Jun 2026
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“That’s a constellation. It’s called Draconis. And over there is Fabrica Solus. The Forge of Solus.”
“Why do you name constellations?”
“It helps us identify the star clusters.”
“Why do we need to know where star clusters are?”
“Our ancestors used the stars as a form of travel. Without it, they’d be lost. Over there is the Galax.” Optimus pointed to the constellation, “It always faces north.”
“What’s a Galax?” Bee looked at Optimus, then furrowed his brows when he saw the Prime looking at him with an expression. “Sorry, am I asking too many questions?”
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and nothing's wrong, when nothing's true by nakachuus
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
18 Jun 2026
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"Oh, understand," Rocky says. There is a moment's pause, and then he asks, "Grace word mean movement smooth and beautiful. What mean ♬♪♩?"
I type the last word in as 'Ryland', against my better judgement (I'm not looking forward to getting disappointedly full-named by Rocky's sardonic computer dictation).
"It technically means 'land of rye', which is a kind of grass grain, but not all human names are actually words. Actually, now that I think about it, names like 'Grace' are a bit of an exception."
Rocky considers this, claws tapping together the way they do when he's calculating something. I have just finished sealing away the remnants of Taumoeba Batch #72 when Rocky speaks up again.
"What mean Rocky name, question?"
I freeze. Crud.
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It's a long way to Erid. Rocky has some name-related revelations, and Grace is going through it. It's technically his fault, but he'll complain about it all the same.
title from buzzcut season by lorde
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22 Jun 2026
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Hey," I chide, mostly out of a middle school teacher habit I have yet to break. "Okay, look, can you blame me—"
"Yes, can blame!" Rocky screeches, suddenly crescendoing in pitch. "Grace give Rocky stupid name! Grace call Rocky ground-♩♫♩-lump — Rocky give Grace correct Eridian name! Grace HATE Rocky, Grace mean stupid leaky human—"
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Collection of PHM art by Lizirins
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
20 Jun 2026
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The phm brainrot got me by the throat im afraid
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Eridian reddit reacts to extraterrestrial life.
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21 Jun 2026
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Ch4
Delightful reddit post by eridiansThings I am Jealous of Earth About
They have a moon. Why don’t we have a moon? UnfairIn this vein, being able to see stars and galaxies in the sky is crazy and I’m disgusted that it took them so long to start a space program when they basically had astronomy on easy mode the whole time.
Jazz. And the Saxophone
Big ginormous oceans with WHALES in them. I still can’t believe the size of some of Earth’s animals
They get to have “colors”
Five fingers. Think about it. We have five limbs, five hearts, five radiator slits… and three claws. Earth took five fingers from us somehow.
I’m back on Earth instruments again. An Eridian cannot physically make a trombone work. Do you know how upsetting this is?
The human ability to throw things. We need to make contact with Earth ASAP because if I do not get more “Major League Baseball Best Strikeouts” compilations I will get
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Eridsona by Cheeseanonioncrisps
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
20 Jun 2026
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Some of Grace's students have been wondering what he might look like as an Eridian. The results are… interesting.
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- Part 4 of Project Hail Mary fics
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21 Jun 2026
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“Cool, a small Eridian!”
“Is teacher Grace,” Robby blurts, and Teddy kicks them.
“Teacher Grace isn't an Eridian.”
Michaela really wants to head to the biodome right now so that they can plunge themself into oxygen and burn to death, but they still feel the need to defend their art. “Is Teacher Grace if Teacher Grace was an Eridian,” they say, in the most formal tones they can muster. “Is artistic interpretation.”
“Oh.” Jeff doesn't sound nearly as quashed as Michaela had hoped. “Why are they so hot, question?”
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Clark knew a lot of things. Perks of being an investigative reporter he supposes. He knew that Batman tended to work alone when not involved with the Justice League. He knew that Batman was so secretive about his personal life no one knew anything about his real identity. He knew that he always slept with the window closed. He knew that there was no hero who wore red, green and yellow. He knew when someone needed help desperately.
He didn't know Batman would want a child hero fighting by his side. And he didn't know how the child hero knew where he kept his cornflakes.
Or, Dick, through a mouthful of cereal: hey batmans-stop screaming-batman's missing can you help
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18 Jun 2026
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Okay. Cool. Awesome. Great. Batman was actively putting a ten year old on the line. This didn’t make Clark feel anything towards the man. Perfectly normal stuff. It didn’t make Clark unreasonably angry.
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Judy and Nick are enjoying a movie night together when he finds out she's never been kissed by anyone. Nick quickly solves that problem and they finally confess that their feelings go a lot deeper than just a kiss. Short, sweet, little fluffy and stupid post-Z2 fic because I kinda can't stop
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18 Jun 2026
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Nick would go for a move he internally called “Old Faithful”: he’d fake a yawn, stretch his arms out to his head, then slowly, slowly wrap it around her shoulders and pull her in close. Did he have to go through the rigamarole of pretending to be tired so he could get Judy to nuzzle into his side? No, not really, but it made him feel like she wouldn’t be as likely to call him out on it.
Meanwhile, Judy usually played the long game, trying to methodically inch over towards her fox over the span of the move until she was right next to him. She knew she could jump the gun and snuggle into him right at the start without any complaint, but this was part of their little dance, neither one willing to openly address the simmering tension between them.
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Grace gets a call that he already expected. And he decided to make it Stratt's problem. Because there wasn't anything he wouldn't do for his brother.
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- Part 1 of Thumbs Up for Humanity
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18 Jun 2026
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CH 2
COLTLAND TWIN SOULMARK ADAPTATION + ROCKY LETS GOOOOOO -
persistence is key by SwirlingStars
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
13 Jun 2026
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“Grace, question?”
I perk up at the sound of Rocky's voice. It's not uncommon after almost two years into our trip to Erid to ask random questions about me, or humans, or really earth in general. Especially after an hour or two on his computer.
“Yes Rocky?”
“Humans persistence predators, question? Humans hunters, question?”
“Ah.”
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12 Jun 2026
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I raised my hand up to grab the students’ attention. Like most classrooms, it took a second, but they all turned their attention onto me.
“Alright class, please each of you come to the front.” I didn't want to explain right then, yet the students followed my order and came just in front of my desk.
Right. Ok. Now for the fun part. The stoneipede is made of, well, stone similar to an Eridian so dropping a book on it like I want to won't do much harm. But I do have a screwdriver. Its something helpful to keep on hand when you have many little rocks running around breaking things (on purpose or not). I carefully pull it out and inform the kids to stay by the desk.
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The Contact Room by Hero_Iron_Dad
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
11 Jun 2026
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What remains of a person when their home, memories, and entire past are stripped away?
On the distant planet of Erid, shrouded in eternal darkness, an elderly Ryland Grace finds unexpected happiness. Separated by a thick pane of glass from his only friend—the alien Rocky—he must confront the painful truth of how he reached the stars. This is a moving and heartwarming story about loss, forgiveness, and the idea that home isn't a place on a map, but someone who makes us feel less alone.Or
Grace Ryland has been living on Erida for many years, and today he reveals his biggest secret to his best friend, Rocky.
Or how he ended up on the Hail Mary.
Rocky isn't happy.
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12 Jun 2026
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Grace pressed his hand briefly against the wall before sitting down in the chair he'd long since arranged just so. He'd had the chair for years. It was not a comfortable chair. It had started as an uncomfortable chair and time had made it worse. He'd asked the Eridians for a better one three times, and three times they had built him something xenonite-adjacent that suited Eridian sensibilities and did not suit his lumbar spine whatsoever. He had stopped asking.
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Explain, he said softly.
"I don't mean I was confused. I mean ... I didn't know my name. I knew what oxygen was. I knew how to operate the ship.
The science was there, all of it, intact. But I didn't know Ryland Grace. I didn't know where he'd come from or why he was there or what kind of man he was.
I was a person with all the knowledge and none of the ... story."Rocky was very still.
That's death, he said.
The words were quiet. Not dramatic. Just a conclusion arrived at through impeccable and devastating logic.
"People don't see it that way."
People are wrong.
"Maybe."
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Project Homecoming by Anonganon
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 Jun 2026
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A mini comic series of Grace, Rocky, and Adrian's relationship.
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12 Jun 2026
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Ch 12
(You will live, grace. You will live and you will thrive.
I will build you a home. I will build you a sky.
I will do everything Rocky asks of me.
So you must do all Rocky needs of you.
And when this is all over, I hope I never have to hear your name again)
COMIC OF THEM BEING CHANGED AND LOVED AND FLAWED
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Back on Earth (not back home, not anymore, not for a very long time) I think I remember there being some kind of rule against teachers having their own kids in their classes.
It was never relevant to me, what with my somewhat impressive lack of Earthly connections.
It’s relevant now. Very relevant.
Rocky and Adrian's pebbles' first day as Grace's students is not the most relaxing of days on Erid.
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12 Jun 2026
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All three little terrors jump straight off Rocky to the ground, fifteen tiny feet and claws kicking off him like their own personal launch pad, which sends him staggering as he tries to maintain his balance as the pebbles disappear in a mad dash.
After I’ve wiped as much foam as I can off my clothes, I give up and turn to Rocky. “I thought you said you’d be busy until dinner later?” I glance at the traitorous bucket of foam as I speak, and since I don’t think it’ll overflow, decide I’ll deal with it tomorrow.
Carapace shaking, Rocky shuffles around a little. “Thrum did not need Rocky,” he says, evasive. “Said it would be best if I return to my family.”
I eye him for a second, then realize what he means. “You were totally being annoying about the kids’ first day of school, weren’t you?”
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The Goldilocks Zone is for Idiots (with proof) by Sniper_mask
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
26 Jun 2026
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Time is a fickle thing.
One day you are young, playing in the rain with a smile etched onto your face. The next day you are old, graduating college and stressing about bills and student loans.
Then in the next, you are young again, too young and too scared as you are told that you are going to be sent on a suicide mission to save your planet- and in the next heartbeat you are old again, walking with a cane and greying around the edges.
Then, inexplicably, you are so so so very young again.
And isn't that a shock for Ryland Grace to wake up to.
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Ch2
For them. For every single student he ever had that had to look up at the sky, terrified that they were going to die.And he had a brother all alone somewhere way up in that very same sky to save too.
As fast as humanly possible.
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You’re low key the ones behind the ArcLight, right?”
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Rocky was everywhere in those months. Translating, explaining, checking on Grace between meetings, settling beside him on the beach in the evenings with the comfortable familiarity of someone who had been doing exactly this for years. Which he had. Which was normal. Which was what Grace had.
Then the meetings got longer. Then Rocky started coming to the beach less. Then there were days Grace didn’t see him at all, just received a brief communication through the translator system — Rocky is in conference, will check on Grace later — and later became the next morning, and the morning after that.
Grace told himself this was fine.
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11 Jun 2026
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“Grace should not do this,” Fig said. “Grace is not a problem. Grace is interesting and strange and very difficult to understand biologically, and Fig has found the last several weeks to be among the most scientifically significant of Fig’s career.” A pause that Grace suspected was as close as Fig got to warmth. “Also Fig would like Grace to stay for a long time. Erid would like Grace to stay. Rocky would like Grace to stay. This is the consensus.”
Grace looked at the waves.
“I’d like to stay too,” he said.
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One of the more realistic ones and just as heartfelt
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The thing about them is that where one goes, everyone follows.
Sai watches as Fang and his friends load up an escape pod. There's little to take home, most of it small tokens they've collected over the years, and it's fortunate because they can't afford to lose any more time over what they're about to do.
"You could come with us."
Gopal fiddles with his hands as he repeats the question everyone else has asked them. He catches the way Shielda looks at the girls, more than a little tempted with how close they've gotten but even now, Sai knows his twin more than he knows himself.
(He's considered it, too.
But like him, Shielda already knows his answer.)
So he smiles, soft and genuine, and says, "You know we can't."
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09 Jun 2026
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It's been eight months since they last went to earth.
It's been eight months, and they still can't go back.
The kids all ask whenever they can. Boboiboy the most, Ying the least. But they all do.
And they're always denied.
Again, and again, and again.
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They still keep asking.
FUCCCC