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  1. Public Bookmark 44

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    Omega!Grace finds he's out of Heat medicine - without which he'll die. But there are more important things than silly biology. He and Rocky save stars!

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    05 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 25

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    He’s never going to starve again. Not if Erid can help it. Not if Rocky has any say in it.

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    05 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 39

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    The meeting with Adrian didn't go exactly as planned, and uh... Grace crashes out about it.

     

    "And… Rocky says Grace acts different when Adrian Rocky visit. Acts normal when Rocky visits. Rocky can tell. Said to give Grace time, that Grace may be shy. But… Adrian come more often, and Grace act more differently. Starts to ask Rocky Adrian to leave early. Tells Rocky not to visit. Rocky is sad sad sad sad sad sad," they warble.

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    05 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 32

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    ~~With some effort Rocky found the more adult side of the human internet. The site a dark black and orange tone as his cheeks dusted with pink. The site was almost overwhelming with myriad of photos, videos, ads and everything in between. He swallowed thickly as he felt his body respond to just a few images. After clicking boldly on one video with a confused noise, he slapped the lid of the laptop closed. His question was definitely answered within the first couple seconds. ~~

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    Or: Rocky was simply studying before his horny thoughts got the better of him. Grace aids him after catching him with his pants down :)

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    05 Jul 2026

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  5. Public Bookmark 33

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    I don’t want to talk about it. But we’re only 32 days into our journey to Erid. We have a long way to go, and if I’m going to keep having these nightmares, he might as well know the reason.

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    Grace finally tells Rocky about how his mission began.

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    05 Jul 2026

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  6. Public Bookmark 32

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    Grace's dome lights go out and he's left alone, fearful of the darkness, until his guiding light comes to find him and bring him home

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    04 Jul 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 27

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    So now, as Grace let out his near-daily cry in the dormitory, Rocky decided something. He'd packed enough xenonite to make hundreds of thousands of chain links, but not much more, prompting him to use the rest sparingly. But after seeing his dearest friend in such a state, he found the situation fit to spend some of his sacred material.

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    Ryland Grace cries a little too hard and Rocky decides to do something about it.

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    04 Jul 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 47

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    After a minorly life-threatening incident aboard the Hail Mary, Grace can't sleep. Rocky takes the opportunity to indulge their...less than scientific curiosity about their leaky human friend's body. Non-sexual intimacy abounds.

    How fragile this creature is, Rocky realizes. Its endoskeleton is so flimsy, and so far beneath the soft skin it should really be protecting. How easily injured. How malleable. How easily Rocky would be able to crush the tiny blood vessels (“capillaries”) near the surface, leaving marks that remain tender and sore and turn many colors (“bruises”). Humans etch things into their outer skin, sometimes, for decoration or religious reasons. They use tiny needles to embed colored pigments just below the surface, where it remains visible to other humans forever (“tattoos”). Rocky wonders if Grace has any tattoos. Rocky thinks about being embedded underneath Grace’s skin.

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    04 Jul 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 64

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    When a micrometeoroid punches through the Hail Mary's hull, Ryland Grace has minutes of air and one job. Weld the breach before the ship bleeds out into the dark.
    It should be simple. Get out, seal the hole, get back inside. But since when have things ever been simple for Grace?

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    04 Jul 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 47

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    "You're acting weird today."
    Rocky exhales a puff of air from his radiator the way a human would. He wonders when certain habits became second nature to him, like tilting his carapace and bobbing it up and down as though nodding, and he wonders, too, whether the time spent with Grace hasn't changed them both beyond repair, until they've become almost strangers to their own species. No longer Eridian, no longer human, but simply Rocky and Grace.
    "I'm acting weird?" he murmurs. "You're sitting on the floor in your underwear."

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    04 Jul 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 25

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    Eridians cannot see colour. Yet Rocky learnt to hate a specific one.

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    04 Jul 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 39

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    While traveling through deep space on the way back to Erid, Ryland Grace realizes through a bit of quiet, habitual astronomy that it must be Christmastime on Earth. The thought brings a gentle wave of homesickness. Rocky notices immediately and, determined to help, asks Ryland to explain what Christmas means rather than just what humans do. With sincere curiosity and very Eridian logic, Rocky attempts to recreate Christmas aboard the ship.

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    04 Jul 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 24

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    A series of conversations between Grace and Rocky

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    04 Jul 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 40

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    "Calm down, calm down. Whatever is the matter? You've returned much earlier than you said you would."

    Rocky hums loudly before straightening its body up, legs all standing straight. I chuckle quietly at the action.

    "Grace! Grace is-!" It whistles harshly again, pushing all the air from its vents before starting again. "Adrian overfeed Grace." It dips its carapace low again as it thuds its rear leg against the ground. Very judgemental.

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    04 Jul 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 52

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    Morbid, that's what this is, and I don't want it to be.
    I'll leave this part out of any memoirs, I guess, just mention it in passing. If there is any time to write memoirs: if Rocky gets me to Erid alive, and he and his fellow alien scientists are able to engineer some way to keep me functioning, then I'll jot this all down in their language and mine for posterity's sake. I've gotten used to chronicling. If I could get this story to Earth, everybody would line up in the bookstores to get their hands on it. They might even forgive me my faults. I'd read my book, too, but mostly for Rocky. He's easy to get attached to.
    Not feeling like I'll have much time left for my memoirs today, though.

    I read Project Hail Mary last year but was thinking again about the period of time on the journey back to Erid where Ryland becomes malnourished and seriously ill and I wanted to write a couple scenes about it. Literary references included for my own enjoyment.

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    04 Jul 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 59

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    Four years is a long time.

     

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    Grace is processing the fact that he will never see another person again. Ever. He doesn't cope very well. Rocky is worried.

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    03 Jul 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 34

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    Sleep paralysis sucks on Earth. It sucks even more when you’re in space. Who would have thought?

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    03 Jul 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 49

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    Grace had nearly died. It would’ve been Rocky’s fault.

    In return, Rocky was getting everything he’d ever wanted.

    Rocky thinks he’s a bad friend. Grace disagrees.

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    03 Jul 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 19

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    Rocky doesn't let me work if I'm on painkillers. He's kind of right not to, they make me stupid, really stupid, slow and dumb. It's been over a week that I haven't taken any, and I've gotten used to it okay.

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    03 Jul 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 58

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    The Eridians don't have love words. Love is assumed -- structural, built into everything. But they do have a word for the specific feeling of being relieved someone exists. Not for what they give you. For what they are.

    Rocky has been trying to translate it for three years.

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    03 Jul 2026

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