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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    Rocky realizes he’s fallen in love with Grace on the way home to Erid. He tries to quell the feeling because it could never work out between them, Grace would never catch feelings for something so inhuman. Or would he?

    A path from friendship to tentative love and eventually a historic romance that proves that no, Ryland did not get sent to space to die. He was sent somewhere he could finally live.

    Also Grace is oblivious and doesn’t know love when he sees it.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 4

  2. Public Bookmark 48

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    On their journey to Erid, Grace finally starts having wet dreams again.

    Watching Grace sleep, Rocky decides to take Grace's awakening libido into his own hands, just to make sure everything is functioning as it should be. (And because he wants to.)

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    19 Jul 2026

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  3. Public Bookmark 75

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    Love to the point of ruin; or Grace as the Attic Wife.

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    19 Jul 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 76

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    Grace and Rocky explore each other's bodies on the trip to Erid. It goes poorly, generally speaking.

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    19 Jul 2026

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    After 51 years, the sole survivor of the Petrova mission returns to Erid. It is not alone, and its strange companion is dying.

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    17 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 9

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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?"

    ——

    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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  7. Public Bookmark 85

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    Ryland Grace is human. He’s strange to the Eridians for a whole host of reasons, and not just because he’s leaky, or immodest with eating, or that he can apparently see colors. He says and does a lot of things that seem made up.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 4

  8. Public Bookmark 97

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    “So, you want me to be your mate?” I ask, my stomach full of delicious butterflies.

    “Of course, what else would all of this be for?

    “I dunno,” I grin. “Maybe you just wanted to have some sexy fun with an alien.”

    Adrian lets out a tinkling little burst of laughter.

    “I’ve heard you are very good with your hands. But I have designs on all of you, Grace. If you'll have me.”

    “We’ll see.” I push myself awkwardly up off the floor. “Let's have our big important date first.”

    ***

    Follow up to 'I am healthy, I am whole, but I have poor impulse control'

    Adrian, Grace and Rocky work to establish something special on a planet that is pretty incredibly uncool with that.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 5

  9. Public Bookmark *

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    "You can literally hear inside me when you focus, bud. Has observing the action of my gallbladder in HD made you think less of me as a person, or humanity as a whole?"

    [Yes,] Rocky says without hesitation, which makes Grace choke on a laugh. He amends, […at first. Then I get used to. Kind of cute now. Humans need infinity liquids to do basic process, always new mucus…]

    "I bet I'm gonna find your ultra-high-temp organs super cute too," Grace offers with an irrepressible grin, "and actually, okay, this strikes me as a morale problem. You're getting too down on yourself. I promise you there is nothing I could find rearranging your—" Nope. "—digging around in there that would shame the entire Eridian race."

    [No way for you to know this,] Rocky says flatly.

    "There definitely is, because I'm gonna shame the entire human race first."

    This is how they spend the next three days on the glove box addition while Mary reads to them from the unreleased 2021 NEISS report, filtered by incidents requiring extraction of foreign objects from the 'lower trunk' or 'pubic region'.

    (or, Rocky eats something inedible. Grace helps. They both get Really Weird About It.)

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    14 Jul 2026

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    Grace and Rocky set sail for Erid and unpack all their emotional baggage along the way.

    When you're stuck in a tin can for almost four years, it's rarely smooth sailing. But, hey! At least your best friend is there to call you an idiot, and you're almost certainly going to die when you reach your destination!

    (Or: The one where Rocky builds a robot instead of an EVA suit)

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    14 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 24

  11. Public Bookmark *

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    "What if I help you?" Grace blurts out desperately, sweating even in the coolness of his house as his words finally manage to stop Adrian from storming out.

    "What?" Adrian says after a tense moment.

    "I can prove it to everyone," Grace says, his heart in his throat. "I'll - I'll make you and Rocky the most celebrated couple on Erid. I promise."

    "Stupid human," Adrian hisses. "You would give up your chance for him just like that?"

    "Yes," Grace says hoarsely.

    "Anything for him."

    ***

    Adrian does not like Grace.

    Which sucks, really, since Grace loves Adrian's husband and all.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 37

  12. Public Bookmark 48

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    He hasn't thought about asking for the kind of intimacy they shared during their journey. They never talked about how they would handle things when they arrived, and they haven't talked about it since.

    They were in a wholly unprecedented situation during their long, isolated journey, and Rocky was there for him in every way he needed. They were there for each other. Now that neither of them are so desperate anymore, no longer living one bad malfunction away from certain death, both of their needs have changed. And they have more people than just each other to help them meet those needs. Anyway, Rocky is back with his mate now. No matter what, Grace still has him as his best friend, and the guy who has made it his personal responsibility to keep him alive. That's more than enough. So he's made it a point to get used to the idea of returning to a life of celibacy.

    Then one day, Rocky walks in and cheerfully announces that he explained their complicated history to his beloved mate, who not only completely understood, but was actually quite curious about the whole thing and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. He just about falls out of his chair.

    OR: Grace, Rocky, and Adrian's first time together.

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    13 Jul 2026

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  13. Public Bookmark 60

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    After six years together aboard the Hail Mary, Grace thought he knew every version of Rocky. Then they arrived on Erid.

    Or:

    Grace finally understood the age gap between himself and Rocky. His newly resurrected libido understood it even faster.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 3

  14. Public Bookmark 43

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    Rocky’s new xenonite suit makes him able to feel everything he touches. Grace has an idea. He tells Rocky to feel his body for.. scientific purposes.

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    11 Jul 2026

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  15. Public Bookmark *

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    Without Grace, all Rocky plural perish,” Rocky continued tirelessly, as if he’d been holding all of this back for ages. “All Rocky can do is love savior Grace for rest of life. Rocky Grace ♫♬♩♪.

    It nearly came as a surprise to be confronted with a new Eridian term, but Grace’s brain short-circuited upon hearing these unknown chords. Hardly able to put any sound to his voice, he uttered, “Need word, Rock.”

    Meant to be together forever,” Rocky explained.

    Grace took a very shaky breath. “Soulmates,” he defined. “You think we’re soulmates.”

    Rocky no think,” he said, tapping one foot against the bunk to give strength to his words. “Rocky know.

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    11 Jul 2026

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  16. Public Bookmark 59

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    Grace laughs, the bath's level swiftly rising with the addition of so much mass. "I thought this was disgusting, you're going to join me in here?"

    Rocky blurts a huffy sound, taking care as he pulls his remaining limbs into the bath, crouching over Grace's legs. "Inside xenonite suit," he says like he's explaining something very obvious (which he is), "No touching cold, dirty bath. Humans made of water, leaking all day long, then still need to go sit in more water. Crazy." He shivers his torso morosely, sending Grace into a laugh that echoes sharply around the bowl of the tub.
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    Ryland Grace has been adrift for a very long time (certainly before being shot into space). Rocky has built him a house, and maybe Grace has found a home.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 2

  17. Public Bookmark 88

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    Ryland Grace cares deeply for Rocky and would never do anything on purpose to upset him or his mate of 150+ years, Adrian. Regardless, when Rocky travels and leaves him alone with Adrian.. they start to really upset him.

    Seriously, what is with the tapping?!

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    07 Jul 2026

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    left off on; ch 3

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    “Proof of concept,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. “We’ve tested it thoroughly to ensure it fits the specified nutritional profile, and several members of our team have ingested small amounts of it to ensure there were no adverse effects.”

    “You ate some of it?” I ask, rudely. I’m too irate to mind my language. Who do they think they are? That meat is for Grace. In a way, that meat is Grace.

    “Yes,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. They and the rest of the human life support thrum know better than to be offended by my occasionally strange behaviour. “Obviously we weren’t going to risk the life of Honoured Grace on a completely untested technology.”

    That doesn’t mean much. There’s a lot of things that are safe for ingestion by Eridians that would outright kill a human.

    Trust Grace, I remind myself. He’ll have thought of all this.

    (OR: Grace's meburgers from the book epilogue. Let's talk about those!)

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    07 Jul 2026

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    After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    finished ^_^

  20. Public Bookmark *

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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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    05 Jul 2026

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    finished ^_^

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