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    Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.

    “Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”

    Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.

    The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.

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    26 May 2026

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    rip ryland grace this man just keeps getting kidnapped and put in space against his will

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    25 May 2026

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    OUUUUGGHHHH GRACE!!!!!!!!!!
    Different povs so good also love love love how eridians have big families and now ryland “doesn’t even have a dog” grace now also has a family :,)

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    Fifty years after the Hail Mary's launch, Earth finally meets its galactic siblings. They come bearing glad tidings, and a gift.

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    23 May 2026

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    amazing grace I am SOBBING

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    “But don’t you want to go home?” Dawn asked into the darkness of the tent, from where she sat on Ingo’s bed.

    “I do not know… young Dawn,” He brought his hand up to the brim of his cap as he spoke, pulling it down and holding it between his hands, “I know I once had somewhere to return to- assuredly, I know there’s people there who miss me dearly,” his thumb gently caressed the pin whose meaning had continued to escape his understanding, “though I could not tell you who they are.”

    (Alternatively, a return!fic that focuses on ingo’s lose-lose situation, hisui or unova?)

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    19 Jul 2022

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    ingo is best dad/uncle and kamado can catch these hands

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    The day Ryland Grace proves the Carl Hypothesis and discovers how to breed Astrophage, a probe is spotted in the outer regions of the solar system. When it's recovered, the words TO SOLVE ASTROPHAGE PROBLEM are found written on the outside, and below that is written in slightly smaller text, Deliver to Ryland Grace.

    Grace, unfortunately, has no idea what's going on.

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    23 May 2026

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    love how grace goes from wtf wtf wtf to OUUGHHGHH ROCKY!!!!
    NASA: what do you mean this alien is ur bestfriend wtf did you do?????????