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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    "Several months into our journey, I begin itching. Not physically – I mean, that does happen sometimes, but I’m talking about mental itching. The kind where you know you want to do something, maybe even something specific, but lack the means to do so.
    I just don’t have the one thing needed for my specific itch: a student."

    Or: Grace shows Rocky a bunch of leftover Earth materials from the lab. Tinfoil happens.

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    05 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    Rocky is not adjusting well to life back on Erid. Between Grace's steadily declining health and his own inability to control his temper, Rocky feels unfit to be celebrated as some great savior.

    And then there is the matter of Adrian.

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    04 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 19

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    Rocky had said his arms would heal after I went back for him, and yeah, one of them is fine now but the other…not so much. I noticed it had never really healed, but I just thought maybe it was worse off than the other one and was taking longer to recover. Paying more attention to it recently, though, it honestly looks way worse than it did when I first found him. I'm worried.

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    03 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 49

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    Humans are persistent predators. Adrian learns this through firsthand experience.

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    02 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark *

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    “Rocky, I’m here, okay? Come back to me, pal, please.”

    Of course I will, I think, drawn to that voice, that strange, wobbling voice, which I care about without knowing exactly why, and I should – it makes me angry, not knowing – I should know –

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    02 Jul 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 2

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    Rocky a réécouté des dizaines de fois les fictions radiophoniques qu'il avait emporté sur le Blip-A. Il aimerait bien découvrir la littérature des humains, maintenant.
    Des discussions émotionnelles s'en suivent.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    "It comes naturally to you. In Eridanese, we are typically very literal. Figurative speech is reserved for art or profanity, so it doesn't come naturally to most of us."

    Huh. That's interesting. Rocky never had much trouble understanding me. Maybe he has a poetic soul. Or maybe he swears like a sailor. Probably the latter.

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    30 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 83

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    Rocky darted out of the way. The door shut with a decisive whirr-click.
    The endless glug-thud-squelch of Ryland Grace's body seemed very loud in the small room. He made a noise that sounded like, "Huh?"
    "Grace and Adrian talk now," Rocky commanded. They pointed one arm at them. "Talk until both normal."
    "What?" Adrian said, baffled.
    Rocky clattered several claws against the ground, a discord of pique. "You are both annoying! Always polite, polite, polite. Bland. Empty."

    In which Adrian and Grace haven't really been getting along, and Rocky takes matters into his own claws.

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    30 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 5

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    Rocky's survivor's guilt flares up as the Hail Mary turns towards Erid.

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    29 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 61

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    During a late “night” chat, Grace makes some depressing discoveries about Rocky’s mental health.

    (Rocky learns from Grace that he’s traumatized)

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    29 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark *

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    “But you said you didn’t have a word for – for forcing someone into reproduction?”

    No. Is different, but equivalent violation. Means, to force to sleep.

    Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.

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    28 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 7

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    Grace had days like these sometimes, where the stress of Erid’s double gravity was too much for his body and it just gave up. Everything that wasn’t laying perfectly still in bed took tremendous effort, but he pushed himself through it anyways.

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    Grace has chronic fatigue and brain fog, and Rocky takes care of him.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    "The Committee worked incredibly hard to provide him with comfort, enrichment and communication, with the slight caveat that they were. Well. Bad at it."

    Based on the works of tumblr user @justcakethanks. I adore these little train wrecks and felt they deserved some love.

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    28 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 21

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    Oh right, like he’s going to ask them for even more stuff so he can celebrate some holiday no one here has ever heard of, by himself. There’s nothing he wants less. “Probably not. Look, it will pass, okay? I’m okay."

    “You are being evasive,” accuses Rocky.

    He throws his arms out in frustration. “I am not! I’d just really rather talk about literally anything else.”

    Or: On Erid, Grace learns that avoidance isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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    28 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 30

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    “I’m sure it’ll be great,” he reassures Rocky. “And you’ll get to see Adrian again!”

    “Yes, yes, excite, excite,” Rocky says, and Grace still isn’t great at telling the mood of Rocky’s words from their tone, but it sounds a little off. “Tell me more about environmental needs for humans. I will make sure they know how to build you a home.”

    Grace lets that change of topic go for right now. If Rocky doesn’t want to talk about what’s bothering him right now, that’s fine.

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    27 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 62

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    "“Hey Rocky, don’t you need to sleep soon?” he asks, filling the silence before it gets weird. Or weirder.
    “I sleep when Grace.”
    “What? And you didn’t even wake me up to watch you?”
    Rocky honest-to-god shrugs, which Grace swears is not a thing he used to do."

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    in which Grace is writing a science paper and Rocky is lying about something. set in the early days into the Erid roadtrip!

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    27 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 14

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    I take a long hard look at myself in the mirror and I don’t like what I see. It’s time to finally admit the tough truth: my hair has gotten way too long.

    I take a deep breath and grab the scissors.

    “Grace! Stop! No no no!” Rocky trills loudly, tumbling into the dormitory.

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    Grace and Rocky find ways to pass the time on the way to Erid. Activities include haircuts, dancing of questionable quality, and figuring out just where on Erid Grace is going to live when he finally gets there.

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    26 Jun 2026

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    “What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.

    “Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”

    “Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”

    In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.

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    26 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 10

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    Maybe after all his time alone in space, Rocky was finally going insane. He was losing it, hallucinating. In a moment as sweet as this, his mind had conjured up a nightmare of tomorrow’s plan, of how it could go wrong.

    Rocky shoved those horrid, horrible images to the back of his mind (that unfortunately couldn’t forget anything, ever), and focused on this moment, on Grace’s breath, his heartbeat, how cool his touch would likely be against Rocky’s burning carapace.

    But try as he might, the vision just seemed so…so real.

    Rocky keeps waking up the day before they go fishing for the astrophage predator on Adrian. Grace dies, and dies, and dies…and Rocky keeps trying to save him.

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    26 Jun 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 19

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    Yet another Carl POV. Grace has been sick all week and misses a meeting, so Carl goes to find him.

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    26 Jun 2026

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