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    A good day, a bad day, and an okay day on the Hail Mary's journey to Erid. Rocky's POV.

    Chapter 1: Grace introduces Rocky to the Mythbusters
    Chapter 2: Grace has been asleep for 41,400 seconds, and is still sleeping.
    Chapter 3: Love to the point of invention

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    21 Jun 2026

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    “It occurs to me, after spending a few weeks with Rocky intermittently in his new suit, that I may have messed up some neural pathways in my brain. Rewired them.

    I can hug Rocky now. I can hold his hand, or pat the top of his carapace, or pester him until he cards his claws through my hair. Pretty much anything I can think of, I can do with him. It’s not without limitations, of course, the suits’s structural support occasionally providing some challenges to work around, but it should be enough.

    Yet, I find myself craving more. Not in frequency, but in intensity. I want to lay arched backwards over him until every vertebra in my spine hurts. I want him to tug the tangles in my hair and scratch at my scalp until I can feel it in the bone of my skull. I want my ribs to creak with every hug. I want more heat than the barrier will let through. To feel it prickle and sear against my skin—just the right side of actually burning. I want to dig my cheek into the jagged edges of him until they imprint on my skin.”

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    Touch-starved Grace part 2: electric boogaloo

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    21 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 47

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    “Rocky rolls his ball right over my foot.

    I can’t remember the last time someone stepped on my foot. Maybe a busy conference room or a bustling hallway, years and worlds away.

    It’s a weird sense of normal, of home, to feel that kind of thing again. So even as the resulting bruising chameleon color-shifts, easing to a sickly yellow, I keep pressing at it. I keep aggravating it. That keeps the memory a little more vibrant and alive.”

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    Touch-starved Grace

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    21 Jun 2026

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    Grace is touch starved.

    Rocky can fix.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    "I just wanted to live… Was that so wrong?" The stranger asks, and it's clear that they aren't talking to Grace and Rocky anymore. Maybe they never were. "They didn't even ask for my name. They killed me and they didn't even care about who I used to be."

    Grace and Rocky find a submarine on their way to Erid. Unfortunately, the strange man inside is barely coherent, and he doesn’t even look human.

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    13 Jun 2026