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    "Many stages in Eridian reproductive process. Rocky Adrian laying cycles finally sync up recently. So, Rocky Adrian think finally time for eggs. Adrian lay five eggs, very good. Only, strange thing happen. Rocky only lay one egg."

    “Oh,” I say. “That’s unusual, right?”

    "Very," Rocky hums.

    My throat tightens. "Does that mean there's something wrong? Are you sick?"

    Rocky makes a gesture I usually interpret as "not exactly". "Not sick," he says. "But doctors still worry. When Eridian start to make fewer eggs, this usually means laying period of life is over soon. Rocky very young for this. Rocky supposed to be in ideal time of life for laying. Rocky younger than Adrian, even." He shifts on three of his feet. Already, my mind is racing ahead, wondering -- "Doctors told Rocky to ask Grace, is this radiation side effect, question?"

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    02 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 35

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    "The cold, white gaze of Mary's walls greets me first. All the lifetimes of things that I witnessed, went through, was complicit in have never stopped weighing on me, and now, sick and bed-bound, I have no other choice than to let myself think about it. No excuses of saving Earth, no desperate rescue mission for Rocky before only a corpse was left of his brilliance, no more trying to fend off the looming risk of malnourishment. There's nothing else but to sit with it. And I don't know what I'm meant to do with it all. I really don't know."

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    Ryland Grace is a slowly dying man, carrying the unbelievable trauma and guilt of having to be forced onto a suicide mission for the sake of humanity. He cannot hold onto this alone, not forever. But what on earth would Rocky, the one who he loves above all, think of him if he learns the truth? That he is not the selfless man who gave up his life to save his home that they both thought he was?

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    28 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace will only live for a short part of Rocky's life, something the Eridian can't seem to come to terms with. But when Grace suddenly is changed into an eridian, Rocky's problem seems to have been solved. But is that even something Grace wants? The two have to tackle the difficult realities they are now facing, leading Grace to an impossible choice.

    Live a longer life in a body that is not his, or let Rocky spend the rest of his life without him.

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    27 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    "Grace sleep on sleep in hollow middle," Rocky tapped from his own bed behind the xenonite. "Many soft textures. Is nest, question?"

    "It'sss n-not a nes-st!" Grace sputtered almost angrily, wings clamping tightly around himself. "I am a scien-tist! I don't m-make nests!"

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    Grace is still getting used to his new avian traits.

    And no, Rocky, that's not a nest!

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    25 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 32

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    From the Hail Mary’s projector room, they've scaled Earth’s mountains, traversed its oceans, explored its cities. Now, Rocky wants to return the favor.

    or; eridian soundscapes to study and relax to.

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    21 Jun 2026