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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    “We call this ♪♫.”

    “The color or the rock?” I tease, earning myself a low staccato noise not unlike what a human might sound like when faking a laugh.

    And then, from one second to another, he straightens. I sense the shift in the air, and as I rise from my squat, his gaze follows me very, very slowly.

    “What?” I ask.

    “Say name of this again,” he says, and I tilt my head. He’s never needed me to repeat something before. His hearing is immaculate, and he’s never once forgotten something I’ve told him.

    “It’s a rock.”

    He doesn’t move. He stares at me with his featureless face until even that feels more unsettling than eye contact.

    “Grace,” Rocky says flatly. “You are fucking kidding me, question?”

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    Or: Rocky learns the meaning behind the name Grace gave him.

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    When she offered to die for the good of all humanity, Ilyukhina thought there’d be a lot more differential equations and a lot less shitty vodka and Hollywood’s a-list trying to relate to her.

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    During a political tour before the launch, the crew runs into a very familiar face.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    When a heavy storm hits the ship, Grace and Stratt find themselves forced into close proximity and repressed feelings accidentally come to the surface.
    This changes some things, and spans over thirty years.

    (June; Ryland and Dr Lokken are flown to remote Alaska to participate in preliminary engine testing using astrophage fuel; they spend two weeks in the wilderness, evading bears and trying not to get into shouting matches in front of everyone. Rasmussen installs the improved and approved o-rings. Ryland discovers that he misses falling asleep with Eva in his bed. The first round of testing is successful; the night he returns to the ship, he and Eva fuck three times and end up talking instead of sleeping, anyway. She tells him that she missed him. He thinks that he might love her.)

    (In July they nuke Antarctica. It’s hard to top that one.)

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    17 Jun 2026

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    The film is called Across Every Distance. Gail Meyer is directing it. Tom Ryder is producing and starring. The budget is forty-seven million dollars.

    Colt Seavers is the stunt double, and he has been slowly losing his mind since week two.

    (His brother will not pick up the phone. His brother never picks up the phone. Colt is going to find him and shake him by the shoulders and that is a promise.)

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Tom Ryder is really stubborn when it comes to the things he wants. This caused quite a bit of embarrassment and awkwardness for a certain doctor from the Astofags, and all because of a single Friday movie night on a research ship.

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    Stratt's VAT's the crew learns about the secret/past of their awkward scientist Dr. Ryland Grace.

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