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    Sometimes, when he was alone and the silence was loud enough to amplify his thoughts, he could admit that he feared it. Feared touch. Feared sex. Feared intimacy and all it implied.

    ‘No’ had never meant anything when he was small.

    Why would it mean anything now?

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    15 Jun 2026

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    His ears are suddenly ringing. Three bourbons in and he can feel that warm weight settling low in his gut as he looks up at his friend and hopes the smile is welcoming. James knows it’s probably more than welcoming: slow and lazy, an invitation his friend won’t ever take, but. Sometimes he slips.

    At least 75 percent of the world is in love with Ryan Gosling. James doesn’t bother to lie to himself about whether he’s part of that category.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    wherein the author slips in sub space as a perfect little treat for me; make those men clumsy and it’s perfect; love the recurring drinking of shitty beer and fucking on the hotel couch in this little fandom; immensely good bants

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    “Who complained about you eating, question?” Someone must’ve said something. He’s had so many visitors in the last couple of days. Who was it? Grace has never questioned this part of himself. Grace huffs at me.

    “No one! I’m just trying to be polite! Eridians have special soundproof eating rooms, shouldn’t I?”

    “You are not Eridian!”

    He doesn’t need to meet our standards; he’s his own species! Some things he might need to change in his daily life to adapt to Erid life, but his food habits don’t need to be one of them. My words don’t comfort Grace like I thought they would. Grace shrinks into himself, and I wish I were on his side to hug him.

    or the Entities provide Grace with a culture teacher to prepare for life on Erid and he gets his first taste of Eridian inhospitality.

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    11 May 2026

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    wherein grace is a wet cat and kicked puppy oh yes; saviour rocky threatening people i love it

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    “Grace safe now,” Rocky repeated. “Grace safe with Rocky.”

    Of course he was safe here -- or as safe as an untrained astronaut could be on a jury-rigged ship rocketing through deep space on a mission he only half understood with his alien best friend, anyway. But there had been a time…

    He wasn’t ready to say it out loud. Not yet. Maybe not ever. But part of him was sure he’d experienced… something. Something worse than being held down, sedated, and then forced into a suicide mission. Something really bad. Something unspeakable.

    (Grace has nightmares. He starts to piece together what happened to him before he left academia.)

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    09 May 2026

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    Grace is always asking me about my mate. “What was he was like when he was young? How did you both meet? What does he act like when I’m not around?” Slightly invasive, personal questions, all of which I find myself answering without hesitation.

    I try to hold back my excitement. It becomes rather clear to me that “best friends” must mean something slightly different for humans.

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    01 May 2026

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    wherein adrian manipulates rocky and grace into getting together; oh the dynamics are so delicious; adrian calling grace sweet little thing maybe ill explode