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    “How did I even get back last night?” asked Ryland. He rubbed his eyes, trying to make his pounding headache relent. It didn’t work.
    “Dude, I have no idea. By the time I came home, you were naked, in bed, babbling about some guy and trees.”
    “...What?”

    A drunken escapade at a frat party Ryland should have never gone to alone comes back to haunt him, many years later. Colt is never going to let him live it down.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Eridians have recreated more of Earth than Grace could have imagined. Waves, trees, flowers — Grace is grateful for all of it. Simon feels the same, even if he doesn’t say as much. Grace can tell from how curious Simon has become.

    Answering his questions about plant life was a breakthrough for their relationship. So, as long as Simon wants to know something, Grace is willing to teach him about it. It's just that giving a lesson on this particular flower isn't quite like what Grace is used to teaching about. After all, it's not like he'd have ever brought up marijuana in the classroom.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    After thirty years in space, Grace comes home to a different Earth. The only thing that remains the same is Stratt.

    She grapples with guilt. He is full of forgiveness.

    Between them, there is understanding and something warm creeping in that had no room to exist all those years ago. They have all the space for it now.

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    19 Jun 2026

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    Earth did not expect the Hail Mary to return from her voyage; they had expected her inhabitants to accept their fate, future patron saints of one-way trips.

    They had measured the optics. They had prescribed three astronauts with a death sentence; two aware and wanting of the pills they were handed to swallow, one dragged kicking and screaming. They had decided that the future of all humanity, of all known intelligent life, was worth these three lives. They had expected that these three lives would make peace with this: that there would be no help other than their own hands in the unknown stretch of the forever cosmos. They had anticipated no consequence for their actions; that those three names would be known as heroes, no questions asked about if they had wanted to be heroes at all.

    They had not counted on Ryland Grace.

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    Or: the probes don't launch. Ryland Grace is forced to return to Earth.

    He still isn't giving up on Erid. Or Rocky.

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    19 Jun 2026

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    Something was standing above his towel.

    No… someone.

    They seemed to be observing the towel, claws tapping against the material with what he took as curiosity, pinching it between the appendage.

    Was it Rocky? It’d make sense, the Eridian would certainly have something harsh to say about him leaving his stuff laying around. He always had some mean quip to insult his shoddy human memory.

    He opened his mouth to defend himself before Rocky could say something snappy, when the figure then moved, stocky legs rising from beneath their carapace and lifting them to their full standing height.

    They were tall. Too tall.

    That wasn’t Rocky.

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    Grace receives an unexpected visitor one night in his home on Erid.

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    18 Jun 2026