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    The alien—Grace—is finally asleep. Or, at least, Rocky thinks he is. He’s curled on his side, tucked away under a covering. Rocky sits on the other side of the alcove the human lies in, fiddling away with one of his many repair projects. Typically, watching another as they sleep is fairly straightforward and uneventful. Not much is needed beyond something to do and to keep a lookout for whoever’s resting.

    But Rocky can’t help but focus more on Grace as he rests. He just can’t; the way the human sleeps is, quite literally, otherworldly.

     

    Or: Snippets of Rocky watching Grace sleep during their mission to save their stars

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    20 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 39

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    It was fine. He was fine. He’s working on his feelings, albeit in an unorthodox way — “You can’t go cold turkey and not expect to have Stratt withdrawal symptoms,” Carl argued the other day. He hated that he called it that, he hated it even more that in some twisted way, it was kind of accurate.

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    Grace refuses to admit he's jealous and naturally, no one believes him (not even himself really). Stratt thinks it's unproductive.

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    20 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 52

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    Something old,

    something new,

    something borrowed,

    something blue.

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    Baikonur explodes three months ahead of launch instead of three days. They get married. It changes nothing.

    (Almost nothing.)

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    19 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 68

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    He steps into the cell, anxious and eager, expecting to spend a few hours talking to her unresponsive form as usual.

    Instead, he meets ice-pale eyes, and Stratt, looking at him and seeing him for the first time in over twenty-six years.

    The only thing Grace can think is, she's here. He's been back on Earth for months, and only now has he finally met her.


    AU - Taumoeba does not evolve to escape Xenonite, and Grace returns home

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    19 Jun 2026

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    A little over thirteen years after the Hail Mary launch, Eva Stratt is released from prison to assist the world’s bickering space agencies after a junior NASA technician spots an unidentified object near the orbit of Neptune. It appears to be on a direct collision course with Earth, and is moving so quickly it does not appear to be affected by any local gravitational forces, not even that of Sol. Oh, and one more thing—it seems to be slowing down.

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    Captain Dr. Ryland Grace pilots the Hail Mary home long before (and long, long after) its mission is supposed to be complete. In their desperate venture beyond their solar system, humanity may have just accidentally unlocked a new chapter in interstellar physics.

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    19 Jun 2026

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    The Hail Mary lands back on Earth carrying a middle school teacher and the alien microorganism that will save the world. Thousands of miles away, Eva Stratt watches her lead scientist kiss the ground through a grainy TV screen. Deep in prison with bruises littering her skin, she thinks it's all right that she'll die here, because humanity will persevere. Her job is done, so the rest of her life doesn't matter in the grand scheme. She deserves the hell she lives in.

    Ryland Grace disagrees.

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    16 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 40

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    The hardest part is remembering he loved her.

    That part comes back to Grace very late in the game. He's on his last dregs of peanut butter and he's pretty sure there's only one or two tortillas left when the memory hits him so hard in the chest that it knocks the wind out of his lungs.

    He wheezes. He sits down. He stares at his fingers and wonders if he ever felt the warmth of her hands in them or if he's just forgotten that too.

    [Or: Grace contemplates his relationship with Eva Stratt to Rocky as he runs out of food on the journey to Erid]

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    15 Jun 2026

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    (n) evenness of mind, especially under stress.

    Eva Stratt relives Project Hail Mary nine times.

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    15 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 12

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    "Okay, new word: catharsis. It's like, getting rid of your negative feelings about something. There are a lot of ways humans can achieve it. One of them is by talking about them. 'Getting it off your chest,' is a common saying for it. It's like the sadness and anger get lighter once you express them."

    "Rocky understand. Grace tell feelings to Eva Stratt, so Grace no longer upset about murder, question?"

    "Yeah, basically."


    Messages across the universe

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    14 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 15

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    Stratt says goodbye to Grace, in her own way.

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    14 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 57

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    It's not surprising that Earth sent a message to Erid, but what is surprising is that Grace is still alive to receive it.

    "There were only the words 'gift sent' and then, two human letters: E and S."

    That stops Grace.

    There’s no way, no way that after all of this… He knows that he still remembers, but… “It can’t be.”

     

    Or: Eva Stratt sends a last message to Grace, and he has to deal with his unresolved feelings about her.

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    14 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 16

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    Eva Stratt died on a Saturday.

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    13 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 53

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    The thing is, I didn’t have anyone in my life to tell me, “Ryland, don’t get into a situationship with the seventy year old woman who shot you into space to die.”

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    13 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 14

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    "To put it quite plainly, Dr Grace, I have absolutely no interest in actually fucking you. Nothing personal.” Stratt says casually. Her hands are still busy undoing her shirt.

    “It's just not my sort of thing. But there is something about the way you routinely embarrass yourself that I very much enjoy watching.”

    Grace accidentally encroaches on Stratt's scheduled "alone time." He's not allowed to participate. But he can watch.

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    12 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 14

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    Eight months after the fall of Skeletor, Adam and Teela ride a four-week circuit of the kingdom: damaged villages, frontier garrisons, restless nobles, the long road home. Teela has been calling Adam her good friend for half a year and has been mostly successful at it. Four weeks on the road is enough to undo her.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    “Rocky not explain question?” asked Adrian slowly.
    “Busy,” said Rocky, sheepish.
    “Had four years on ship.”
    “Busy then too.”
    Adrian skittered back and forth, which I think equated to a human throwing both hands up in exasperation. “With what question?”
    “Science!”
    “Whole time science question? Four years!”
    “Is much science in universe!”

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    Rocky has neglected to explain some very important cultural context to Grace.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    It's been a full year of living in close quarters on the Hail Mary. Grace was bound to mess up eventually.

    If Grace was still on Earth, he would have plenty of options for places to go. A quiet park, maybe a movie theater, a walk on the beach. Something like that. As it is, stuck on the Hail Mary, he just doesn’t have that many options of places to go after a fight with his roommate.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    It's going to be a long trip back to Erid. I'm trying to make it as easy on Rocky as I can.

    (Or: Grace is wrong about what Eridians need, and he's especially wrong about why. )

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    09 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 7

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    Teela has come to rescue her best friend from the dungeon. Adam is lucky.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    "Hey...can I ask you something kind of weird?"

    "Shoot," Rocky says, his voice sounding amused. "But not actually shoot."

    Grace wants to laugh at the joke (he's been getting better at joking and sarcasm) but instead he swallows, his fingers tracing idle patterns on the blanket. The ache from earlier at the classroom, the beach, the constant invisible wall feels closer tonight.

    "What does it feel like... to touch you?" he asks. "I mean, if we could. Your carapace. Your claws. What would it feel like to me?"

    Rocky is quiet for a long beat. When he sings again, his melody is thoughtful and gentle.

    "Hard. Rocky, like name. Like...strong stone that is alive. My claws are sharp but careful. My body pulses a little when I am happy. Like singing Grace can feel instead of hear." He pauses, then adds with a soft, almost shy trill, "What does human skin feel like, question? To me, I wonder."

    He imagines it.

    In his mind, the xenonite shell vanishes.

    Or: Grace is touch starved and Rocky wants to make it better

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    08 Jun 2026

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