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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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    "Heck, if he wanted to do open heart surgery on me, I'd probably let him."

    Rocky has no choice but to do open heart surgery.

    "Rocky can replace valve. Rocky cannot replace Grace."

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    15 Jun 2026

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    Having a panic attack is no fun. Getting stabbed through the stomach by a rogue pipe also isn't very fun, either, in Grace's opinion, and yet here he is. Pinned down, freaking out, unable to think or breathe with the past catching up.

    Through it all, though, Rocky won't leave his side.

    BadThingsHappenBingo Fill: Bloodstained Clothes

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    15 Jun 2026

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    It's a stage.

    It's hard to tell in its dilapidated state. But he knows, instinctively, that he stands on a stage. Hardwood. Shining, once upon a time, he thinks. It's solid beneath his feet.

    He taps a foot against it. He receives feedback; pressure against his sole, an audible clack in the air.

    What a strange sensation.

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    A desperate act to save the circus leads to a haphazard reconstruction of Caine's corrupted code. But something is wrong. Now powerless and flooded with memories that do not belong to him, Caine believes he's another human.

    But if Caine thinks he's a human, and the players are busy trying to stop the circus from complete self-destruction, then who's the one running the show?

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    11 Jun 2026

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    After weeks of trying and failing to fix the Circus, or at least make it livable, Kinger convinces the others to let him pull Caine from the recycle bin and have him fix their world.

    There's just one problem: Caine doesn't want to come back.

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    03 Jun 2026