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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    “I’m… I’m not supposed to be here,” he stutters, gripping the helmet in both hands, his knuckles gone all white. He looks up and swallows back the bitter taste in his mouth, throat clicking audibly in the quiet. “Please. I don’t want to die.”

    Rocky stops, staring at him.

    He stares at Grace’s trembling mouth, the shaking of his legs, the sweat collecting on the suit’s collar. Understanding blooms slowly on his face—too slow—so Grace decides to hammer in the point by tilting his head just the slightest bit to the left, baring his neck.

    There, right under his ear, swollen and red: a needle mark.

    Rocky’s breath catches. “You did not sign up to be a pilot,” he whispers, horror-stricken.

    It’s not a question.

    ***

    Rocky’s copilot is dead. Stratt needs a team willing to sacrifice themselves. And Grace is a researcher who just wants to lay low and do his job.

    Somehow, all three of these things are connected.

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    10 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 29

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    His mouth snaps shut when Stratt pushes her hand flush with his palm and threads her fingers between his. His warmth bleeds into her fingers and she pretends it doesn’t, because it’s not like it affects her. Her pulse is only beating faster because she’s walking in brisk strides down the narrow passage to her quarters. She flicks her keycard over the reader and her door unlocks with a click. She tugs her scientist inside and he freezes with his hand still attached to hers, because this is—

    “This is your room,” he says, dumbfounded.

    Stratt nods. “It was closer than yours.” She releases his hand to gesture to the very soft-looking bed with its satin sheets and pillowcases. “You can sleep there.”

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    06 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    Olesya Ilyukhina makes a bucket list of 100 things she wants to do before she sets out for her suicide mission aboard the Hail Mary. Just to see if she can make it happen, one of the things on her list is "make out with the pseudo-dictator of the world." But what happens when she stops seeing Eva Stratt as just a kiss to check off her list and instead develops a crush on her for real?

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    06 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 35

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    I never noticed. There are no mirrors in my house; there are no mirrors anywhere on Erid, at least not in the sense that we understand them. There’s reflective surfaces, but not intentionally so. My attention has been tugged this way and that, always something new to discover, or else something new to research in the endless encyclopedia I was left with. I had no reason to look at my own body beyond what was necessary to keep it clean.

    But now I’m sitting here, and it stares me in the face. Emphasized by my position, my stomach rises up and over my waistband, forming a soft mass that spills slightly over my sides.

    “Oh,” I say out loud. I run a hand over this new pudge that probably isn’t new at all, startling slightly at the texture of it. Soft. Yielding. Slightly cold from the water evaporating on it. I touch my body like it isn’t my own, because for a long, long time, it wasn’t. I touch it the way Rocky touched me once he finally had the option to, committing everything to memory, matching it to what he already knew.

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    Or: In the two years that he spent on Erid, Grace has changed in just about every way imaginable. But one way in particular feels more significant than the rest.

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    05 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 18

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    When Eva Stratt arrives at Erid, Rocky confronts her for what she did to his best friend.

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    04 Jul 2026