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    “Lots of Eridian view Grace Rocky bond ♪♫♪♬. This include Adrian.”

    “No understand word, Rock.” Their relationship? What about their relationship? His heart skips. Their occasional language barrier is like getting a patch of static right at the good part of the show you’re invested in.

    Rocky hesitates to speak for a moment. “New word: suspected mates.”

    Grace’s world tilts on its axis. There’s just no way that’s right. He reaches up and drags his beanie off of his head. Only then did it feel right to implore, “…Your people think you and I are mates?”

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    Ryland Grace spends years in space falling in love with his best friend and keeping it secret, convinced Rocky could not possibly feel the same. Rocky, always on the same page, is conducting identical research.

    It’s why they’re such a great team.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    “Always think,” Rocky shifted his ball closer, bumping into Grace’s shoulder. Grace bumped it back, lips quirking up. “Think, think, think. Human brain never shut off. What Grace think about, question?”

    Grace went quiet for a moment and looked away. “Uh, my… ‘mate.’ Back on Earth. I remember I had one.”

    A series of happy little squeaks and chirps erupted from Rocky, his claws waving in frantic little jazz hands. He must have been excited to realize Grace had someone waiting for him back at home. Grace still didn't have the heart to tell him the truth, and likely never would. He shakes the thought away and focuses, eyes half-lidded and flickering back toward Rocky. The display pulled a genuine smile from Grace, though he wasn’t sure there was anything happy about the man back on Earth who grabbed him like a dog.
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    Alternatively, Grace has a flashback and subsequent revelations about himself and the person he was dating back on Earth. It affects him more than he thought it would.

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    30 May 2026

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    Sometimes, when he was alone and the silence was loud enough to amplify his thoughts, he could admit that he feared it. Feared touch. Feared sex. Feared intimacy and all it implied.

    ‘No’ had never meant anything when he was small.

    Why would it mean anything now?

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    26 May 2026

  4. Rec 47

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    "I’m not stupid. I’ve seen this before. Humans that break and put everything aside for their one singular goal. Killing another, hurting them, taking away from them something they hold dear."
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    Rocky gets sick on the Hail Mary and chases Ryland. Ryland gets caught.

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    25 May 2026

  5. Rec 8

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    Eva convinces Ryland to have sex with someone so they'll donate ninety million dollars to Project Hail Mary.

    Things go out of hand.

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    25 May 2026