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  1. Public Bookmark 35

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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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    17 Jun 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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    16 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 78

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    “What? You’re not wanting to actually do this soap opera appearance, are you?” Rocky asked.

    Grace’s ears pulsed with blood flow and he gave a twitch of a shrug.

    “I mean…kinda?” he said. “I love As Erid Turns.”

    Rocky turned to Adrian.

    “Well?”

    “Well, what? I think he should do it,” Adrian said placidly.

    “Adrian! Grace is not some—cheap floozy of an entertainer! He’s a respected interstellar scientist!”

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    OR: Dr. Ryland Grace, unlikely Eridian soap opera star.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace dies at age 46, just three days before Hail Mary was expected to arrive at Erid.

    Three years later, a strange Eridian stumbles through the crowd with one mission in mind: Find Rocky.

    OR: Grace dies from complications due to prolonged malnutrition before he and Rocky could make it to Erid. Several years after being given a human burial on the very planet he helped save, Grace claws himself out of his own grave – far less human than he should have been.

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    14 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 42

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    Once, his heart would have fluttered with fear as the sound of his outside environment faded, as the thrum and press of Erid and her song came down around him. He would have stumbled, tripped, grown tired from focusing his eyes.

    Grace knows the path now. He is not afraid.

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    Grace becomes a Saint on Erid.

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    13 Jun 2026