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    "You know, I always thought I'd live somewhere with lots of people around," Olruggio tells him. The wine in his vessel is a rich pink colour. Qifrey made them olives and cheese with cabroccoli wrapped in ham for a late-night snack, but the pleasure was in the making, not in the eating. He sips his own vessel, listening. "But it's really nice out here, isn't it? Peaceful. Good for focussing."

    "I think you would be even more of a hermit, if you had the choice," Qifrey says. "Lost in your work for weeks on end."

    Olruggio looks sheepish, rubbing the back of his neck with his free hand. "You're probably right. I never thought I'd be that kind of person, either… weird how much things change, isn't it?"

    "And how much they stay the same," Qifrey murmurs.

    A temporary fix-it.

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    27 May 2026

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    It's not jealousy. Adrian is adamant about that. They are actually insisting that it’s not any emotion at all. Not even dislike. They are simply completely uninterested in anything that concerns “the human”. 

    Rocky believes them. Adrian has always been the level-headed one out of the two of them. They are too logical to be jealous. They acknowledge that Grace and Rocky have a special bond after everything they went through together and also understand that none of that will ever pose a threat to their relationship. 

    Neither are they heartless or ungrateful. They know that Grace is the only reason that Rocky is back at all, the only reason their star has stopped dying. Adrian has told Rocky again and again that they are grateful and happy and wish the alien no ill will. They even helped with the construction of the biodome.

    And yet they have no desire to get to know Grace. 

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    You know those videos where the dad is like "You may keep the cat but I will have nothing to do with it" and a few days later they are smothering the kitty with cuddles and love?

    Adrian never stood a chance.

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    24 May 2026

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    "Hey...can I ask you something kind of weird?"

    "Shoot," Rocky says, his voice sounding amused. "But not actually shoot."

    Grace wants to laugh at the joke (he's been getting better at joking and sarcasm) but instead he swallows, his fingers tracing idle patterns on the blanket. The ache from earlier at the classroom, the beach, the constant invisible wall feels closer tonight.

    "What does it feel like... to touch you?" he asks. "I mean, if we could. Your carapace. Your claws. What would it feel like to me?"

    Rocky is quiet for a long beat. When he sings again, his melody is thoughtful and gentle.

    "Hard. Rocky, like name. Like...strong stone that is alive. My claws are sharp but careful. My body pulses a little when I am happy. Like singing Grace can feel instead of hear." He pauses, then adds with a soft, almost shy trill, "What does human skin feel like, question? To me, I wonder."

    He imagines it.

    In his mind, the xenonite shell vanishes.

    Or: Grace is touch starved and Rocky wants to make it better

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    18 May 2026

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    They've been traveling together for a couple of months, and they're all starting to wonder where their journey is going to take them. K feels like he has to ask himself a question that he doesn't want to know the answer to: Would Rick and Ana be better off without him?

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    11 May 2026

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    K keeps having these nightmares and he just can't figure out why.

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    09 May 2026

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    K is the one that needs to recover, but they all need to mend.

    Blade Runner 2049 Fix-It

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    09 May 2026

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    When Ana Stelline was younger, she cheated on an assignment. Just once. She thought she got away with it too, until a KD6 officer had a break down in her office. And here she just thought she was being kind.

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    09 May 2026

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    Grace is dying. Rocky fix.

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    "Plan is to use human thinking machine to find out vitamins and minerals Grace is currently missing. When Grace had human food, Grace wasn’t sick. When Grace was had coma slurry, as Grace called it, Grace was hungry but not sick. When Grace only has taumoeba, Grace sick.

    Need substitute for taumoeba. No good for Grace.

    Rocky tried to make Grace food before, but apparently Rocky uses too many heavy metals. Would kill Grace. Bad bad bad.

    So Rocky need to search ship. Search everywhere. In walls. In ports. In everywhere."

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    07 May 2026

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    "Grace sad, not good. I fix."

    "… Um. How?" I ask. "Oh, God, please don't make me a human-shaped robot to hug. That would be so creepy."

    "No robot," Rocky promises.

    (Or: Grace was touch-starved even before he left Earth. Rocky attempts to fix.)

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    07 May 2026

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    “What made you come up with this?” Grace asks. His voice is thick.

    “Grace need comfort,” Rocky says matter-of-factly. “Like a hug. This comfort Grace, question?”

    Grace presses his hand more firmly against the top of Rocky’s carapace, and Rocky shifts a bit within the xenonite, rising so that they make nearly direct contact through the panel. It’s not like they haven’t done something like this before—Rocky is always pressing his claws up against Grace’s palm—but it’s different for Grace’s whole hand to be so close, to feel the heat of a living thing against his side and against his palm all at once.

    “Yeah,” Grace breathes.

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    On the trip to Erid, Grace is starving.

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    03 May 2026

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    “Rocky,” I say sharply. The irritation feels unpleasant inside me, foreign like a toxin.

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    01 May 2026

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    After a year in orbit, Grace thinks he's ready to finally make his way down to Erid. The planet has been eagerly awaiting his arrival, ready to welcome him like a hero. Grace forgot to consider just how loud Erid could be and, more importantly, how frayed his tolerance is after years of near solitary travel.

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    Grace is overstimulated and has a meltdown shortly after arriving on Erid. Rocky tries to help.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    Eva feels like the breath is knocked out of her lungs when the man walks in.

    Dirty blond hair. Blue eyes. Sort of like… if Ryland Grace was hit by a car several times. It was undeniably him.

    “So you’re Eva Stratt,” The man says gruffly, slamming both hands on her desk. He looked exactly like Ryland, it was terrifying. It felt like watching a ghost haunt her in real life.

    “You’re the crazy woman that sent my baby brother up into space. Let’s talk, yeah?”

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    Colt Seavers finds out his twin brother was sent on a suicide mission. He does not take it well.

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    16 Apr 2026

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    "Without thinking of it, Grace makes it through two and three fourths of a bag of coffee. Rookie numbers. The taste didn't get better, but it was something new, almost comforting in how demanding it was of his senses. It shushed that little voice telling him if he had to see another white spaceship panel, or taste taumoeba again, he would throw himself into the nearest star’s orbit."
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    Grace remembers he can drink coffee, and immediately regrets it.

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    09 Apr 2026

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    Rocky spends several years talking exclusively with an atonal human. This has some significant effects on his speech patterns.

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    09 Apr 2026

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    As he settles into Erid, Grace finds himself wanting more and more to better blend in with his new neighbors. His biology is a hard bridge to cross, but he gets a few ideas when Rocky gifts him some Eridian gems.

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    09 Apr 2026

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    Rocky and Grace near the end of their mission to save Erid and Earth. They're in the homestretch now. Hopefully nothing else goes wrong...

    “Grace?” I say. “You’re a good person. Kind. I wish I was more like you.”

    He doesn’t answer for a moment. “Grace wish Grace was brave like Rocky. Grace is not brave. Rocky has crazy EVA suit. Grace has safe xenonite container.

    “Hey. You’re plenty brave. Going into space at all is brave. Nothing about this has been a walk in the park. Hell, you broke out of that “safe” xenonite container to save me. That was brave.”

    If Grace is brave then Rocky is kind.

    “That’s a called a logical fallacy. The two aren’t inherently connected, bud.” Why does Grace argue with me about everything? Can’t I just wallow miserably in peace?

    This is a species swap au, in which Rocky is the human engineer aboard the Hail Mary and Grace is a science Eridian aboard the Blip-A.

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    09 Apr 2026

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    Ryland Grace slams face first into the realization that he will never be touched by another living being again. Rocky does his best to help.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Rocky is up to something.

    It probably won’t kill us—we’ve put far too much work into keeping each other alive for that—but every time I try to get closer to see what he’s doing, he acts like I’m trying to murder his firstborn or something and shoos me away so I don’t “ruin Grace surprise”. Jerk.

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    08 Apr 2026

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    The Eridians have finally gotten the water feature in Ryland's personal zoo enclosure just right (even if Rocky would like him to stop calling his dome that).

    Rocky refuses to believe that humans naturally float. There is no way Ryland's entire species regularly goes into deep water for fun.

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    03 Apr 2026

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