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    [What does hand flex mean, question?] Rocky asks from where we're huddled together on the floor, watching the 2005 adaption of Pride & Prejudice.

    "It's uh—" I hit pause, search for the right word. "Have we had yearning in the vocab yet?"

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    or: two years and seventeen days after reaching Erid's orbit, the climate control in the biodome breaks

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    16 Jul 2026

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    12 Jul 2026

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    The Hail Mary has sent off its Beetles and Eva Stratt is the first to dissect them for the data within. If anything, she’s simply glad that Ryland Grace, as odd as he may seem at first glance, is thorough. His logs, both visual and written, go over everything in pretty good detail.

    She’s also come to learn that he has a pretty bad habit of leaving the camera on when it isn’t meant to be.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    “If you could be any astronomical object, what kind of astronomical object would you be and why?”
    Rocky cannot be astronomical object. Rocky can only be Eridian.
    “Humor me, pal, I’m dying of boredom over here.”

    (or, snapshots of the fourteen days that Rocky and Grace spent making the chain in orbit around Adrian)

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    11 Jul 2026

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    I very carefully set the gun near the xenonite barrier. “Need a word. Fast moving projectile launcher. This is an object that can make small objects go very fast.”

    Rocky gets close to the barrier and seems to be inspecting it with his sonar. “Unfamiliar with concept. How fast can objects move with launcher, question?”

    “An object is made for the launcher. Cannot be any object. We call objects ‘bullets.’ We call launcher ‘gun.’ It uses gunpowder to make a small explosion, which is powder made from sulfur, potassium nitrate, and charcoal- Carbon. In high oxygen environments this creates a small explosion that propels the bullet forward at 100 meters a second.”

    Rocky scurries back. I would too, but I have the business end facing away from me and the xenonite barrier. “Are objects in this launcher, question?”

    “Yes, I do not know how to take them out.” I point to the end of the gun that houses the bullets. “In Earth’s atmosphere, they would be safe to remove. But in a high oxygen environment like the Hail Mary, I’m afraid of causing a spark that would make the bullets fire anyway.”
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    Grace finds Yáo’s gun.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    "He's tapping his fingers together again. I know what he's thinking. He's thinking what I am thinking. But if either of us is going to say it, it's gotta be him. 'If it came down to it, I would be completely fine with you performing an invasive surgery on me', is something that would take possibly three more near-death experiences and another coma to grant me the resolve to say aloud."

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    06 Jul 2026

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    Oh My God

  7. Public Bookmark 63

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    The Eridians don't have love words. Love is assumed -- structural, built into everything. But they do have a word for the specific feeling of being relieved someone exists. Not for what they give you. For what they are.

    Rocky has been trying to translate it for three years.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    “What bondage, question? Humans also do?”

    I flush again. Good thing he can't see it. "It's um..I'm not sure I can explain it well - "

    “Rocky research, statement.”

     

    Eridians have their own version of bondage, and Rocky gives Grace a demonstration. Grace makes some discoveries about himself.

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    05 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    ohhhhh my god this was reallllyy good wowowoww

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    “Not so strange,” Rocky says mildly. “Back in not-so-distant past Eridian eat other Eridian all the time. Top of food chain. After natural disaster, war, not so much else to eat. Ecosystem delicate, especially if carnivore, especially if big. 🎵🎶 good thing to have to fall back on.” 

    “Cannibalism,” I manage to get out. 

    “New word. Cannibalism.”

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    05 Jul 2026

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    VIDEO LOG HAIL_MARY_DORMITORY 1400H TIME ELAPSED 00:00:00

    [VIDEO LOG BEGINS. RYLAND GRACE is looking at the camera. His hair is shoulder length and unwashed. He wears a black t-shirt with text that reads “YOU MATTER. YOU ENERGY.” There are dirty bandages all over his left arm and scarring on his neck. He is smiling.]

    Hello Earth! Or hello to whoever’s seeing this first. Don’t freak out! It’s me! Um… I am – I should probably do an official intro, right?

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    05 Jul 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 54

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    Moments passed from Earth to Erid and beyond, listed in chronological order.

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    04 Jul 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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    04 Jul 2026

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    “Two dead humans each have bag with name. Third human bag not have you name. Where Grace bag, question?”

    A pit about ten miles deep forms in my stomach.

    The embroidery. He can sense the raised lettering, and now that he’s started learning to read English, he can tell that the only bag with Latin script is not my bag. Great. Yeah, this is exactly the conversation I didn’t want to have today. Or ever.

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    04 Jul 2026

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    What if Grace's arm needed to be amputated after he got burned getting Rocky back to his enclosure?

    Can be read as slash or not.

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    04 Jul 2026

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    Ryland Grace's curriculum vitae (and some articles from the cv). Literally. That's it.

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    04 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    REALLY GOOD

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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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    03 Jul 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 77

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    Some of Grace's students have been wondering what he might look like as an Eridian. The results are… interesting.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Grace, question?

    His tone is patient, the chords of his words simplified so that I can definitely understand him without my laptop-translator-rig. See, he’s just considerate like that.

    No one in all the Earth Sci-Fi stories and movies tells you that the aliens will be kind.

    Another tap of his arm. Sad thoughts?

    “Sad thoughts.” I concede. No point lying to someone who can hear your heartbeat.

    Hm.

    I’m proud of myself for identifying the note as a thinking sound, a filler word. I gotta say, my foray into exolinguistics has been an excellent distraction from the general misery that is my now-mostly-remembered-life.

    Do you want to talk about it?

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    Some overdue conversations . Time spent together on the way back to Erid re-opens some old (and some fresh) wounds.

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    01 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    wow wowow wow wow wow

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    The awareness of time is a delicate thing.

    It is slipping rapidly from Grace's fingers. Grace, who is starving to death, who is still recovering from the most precise amnesia Earth could give him, who turned around and left Earth in the hands of the Beetles save his one dearest companion even though it would kill him, is still a scientist at heart. Scientists solve problems. He finds ways to keep track.

    Rocky wouldn't approve, but what Rocky doesn't know won't hurt him.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    "Grace's body is alive despite every detail telling Rocky otherwise. His human is a cold and wet thing, yet there are biological pumps within his body that shuttle around heated blood no differently than in an Eridian. Rocky knows the blood within him is hot because he can hear its vibration, a static hum that accompanies all that produces heat. But what Rocky wants nothing more is to press his palms against Grace until he can feel it, that scant heat, that proof that he is in fact alive."

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    29 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    holy fuck

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