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    Paul had gotten some kind of message out of “Starting Over.” The only message there was to pull out of it. The message John had written himself in circles trying to get away from, until he’d given in to it and let it come. How many pens had he dried up, how many pencils he’d worn down to nubs, in his vain attempts not to admit to himself what he really wanted?

    November, 1980: John and Paul meet up in Paris.

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  2. Public Bookmark 46

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    If everyone actually believed Ryland Grace was from the future, things would probably be going a lot better for him.

    Unfortunately, his foreknowledge of the explosion that would have killed Shapiro and Dubois has made many people believe that he was behind it. Opinion is divided over whether it was a deliberate terrorist attempt, or if he's simply lost his mind.

    One thing is for certain however, Rocky is alone out there in Tau Ceti. And Grace can do nothing to save him stuck inside his cell.

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  3. Public Bookmark 22

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    When Grace and Rocky are forced to head to Earth instead of Erid, Grace is expecting Stratt to still be around, doing what she does best: ensuring the world doesn't end.

    Instead, they return to a world where no one will tell him about her, and he's left to assume she's dead. What he discovers is much worse.

    He thinks there's a part of him that still hates her, but there are some things that you shouldn't even wish on your worst enemy, and he doesn't think Stratt is that.

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    In Eridian culture, forcing someone into a state of sleep is one of the worst crimes someone can commit.

    Rocky discovers what happened to Grace.

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    In their complete shock, Adrian thinks they can be excused for missing another presence on that ship before they were almost pounding on the ship's door. But when they did notice, they froze in their tracks.

    Bipedal. Almost completely organic. Two front-facing, predator-like light detectors. Descriptions flashed through their head, descriptions that are only known through dead bodies because no Galactic Collective agent would dare go near them alive.

    It's a human.

    Rocky is trapped in a ship with a human.

     

    or,

     

    The Humans Are Space Orcs fic that nobody except me was asking for, so I wrote it myself.

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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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    Ryland Grace wakes up in space... and he's not alone.

    All three members of the Hail Mary wake up en route to the Tau Ceti system. One of them doesn't know who he is. All the answers they need are here for them to find, deep in interstellar space. They just don't know it yet.

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    I still think in Earth units sometimes, translating for the human that isn’t even here. Maybe it is subconscious, because if Grace were here, he would know how to figure out what happened.  

    Like how Taumoeba infected my ship. 

    Missing scene from Rocky's POV

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    Grace is having a very difficult time on the Journey to Erid. When Rocky finds out exactly how bad of a time Grace is having, he will do everything in his power to help.

    “Grace try treatment. Try try try. Please.”

    How can someone without any eyes at all still give such strong puppy dog eyes? I just want to stop hurting my best friend. “Sure Rock.”

    “Rocky Grace try treatment. If treatment not work, then.” Rocky shudders one more time. “Then Grace do dangerous sleep.”

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    Ch 7

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    A series exploring the biological, cultural, and linguistic differences between two members of a very unconventional (but good) social group on a little spaceship far from home.

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    “You sleep, I’ll watch.” 

    We both know that they are not going to sleep. We both know that the moment they go still, they will be dead. And I will be alone. But I won’t say that, and they won’t say that, even if it’s the truth. 

    “You…save Erid,” they say. 

    Not a question. 

    I will be the last Eridian on our ship. I will be the last hope. 

    Or I will die. Just like every other Eridian has died here, and will eventually die on Erid, because we failed.  

    I shift low, close to where my last friend lays. “You sleep, I will watch,” I tell them again. 

    And they go to sleep. 

    And they never wake up again. 

    Rocky loses everyone on his crew.

    Years later, he meets an alien.

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    In relative terms, the trip from the Tau Ceti system to the 40 Eridani system takes the Hail Mary a little over three Earth years.
    This is what happens when you put two snarky aliens in a small, enclosed space for that long.

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    It’s been nearly 27 years since Eva Stratt forced Ryland Grace to board the Hail Mary and sent him off to his death for the greater good of mankind. Meanwhile, Eva and the Project Hail Mary team have been fighting a losing battle against the cooling sun—and their own demons—trying to make sure there were still people to be saved by the time the crew could send a solution home. Right on schedule, the beetles are returning to Earth, hopefully with the answer to saving the world. But Eva has something else to worry about; there’s every possibility Ryland Grace’s last words would be coming home, and all the time in the world couldn’t make her ready to face the consequences of her actions, or what will happen when her colleagues find out what she did to their friend.
    It was time to find out if it was worth it for her to sacrifice Grace, and her soul, to save humanity. And to find out if she was ready to face him after all these years…

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  15. Public Bookmark 51

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    Stranded here on Mars
    What's the odds?
    You'd get stuck here too
    Might be a lost cause
    Who'd have thought
    There'd be so much left to lose?

    Come hell or heaven, angels or devils
    I won't move
    And I don't care what happens after
    I won't quit on you

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    Confirmation bias: the human tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information that aligns with our existing beliefs, while ignoring or dismissing evidence that contradicts them.

    No matter what Grace tries to tell him, Simon is very sure that the man is divine in nature. It just makes sense.

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    Simon winds up in The Enclosure, naturally. Grace is super down to have human company on planet Erid, but he really wishes someone would have given him a little bit of warning first. Especially about Simon’s religious cult upbringing — if he had known about that, he maybe could have planned a better-worded greeting that wasn’t basically, “Be Not Afraid.” He really set them up for failure with that one.

    [NO AI USED, AND DO NOT FEED MY WORK TO AI, I EXPRESSLY FORBID IT.]

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    16 Jul 2026

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    The Butcher makes a deal with Ellie, a voice in the blood ocean. He is deposited somewhere full of grace, with one mission: find love to remove the mutations that have turned him into a monster.

    Ryland Grace lives on an alien world. He was content with his stories and his science, his students and his chosen Eridian family. But when a mutated monster washes up on the shore, he suddenly has someone to share his world with.

    Inspired by Beauty and the Beast.

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    Simon is so down bad for Grace. That’s it, that’s the one shot.

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    Ryland is worried that his habit of singing to himself bothers Simon.

    Simon is having a religious experience.

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    It’s been a few years since the Hail Mary succeeded, and now Grace and Rocky are on a mission to help the other affected stars that are being eaten by Astrophage. They’ve been traveling around the galaxy, letting taumeoba loose on the infected areas, when they run into a strange solar system. It’s got a planet with a moon that has an ocean full of… blood? And what’s even more strange is what they find on the surface. Or a more fitting description: who they find.

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