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    07 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 65

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    Life has a funny way of giving Grace everything he's ever wanted.

    (Or, in which Grace adjusts to his new life on Erid. Rocky, as always, just wants to help.)

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Grace has to handle First Contact with an alien planet with what meager Eridian his one set of vocal chords can make.
    This Is Fine. This is totally, completely, utterly fine.

    (Grace sounds like a pebble. This, alongside Eridian's extended lifespans, kicks off a chain of misunderstandings that Grace would find utterly mortifying if he knew what the heck was going on.)

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Once Rocky learned that Grace can whistle, he decided to teach him how to say some basic words in Eridian
    One day when they were close to Erid, Rocky falls ill and is unable to answer to the Eridian message

    Luckily, Grace could answer

    Too bad that Rocky didn't tell just how, juvenile he sounded when he spoke Eridian

    Or

    How Grace confused Eridians about his age

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Grace is dying of all the deficiencies. Rocky is severely traumatized and trying to keep Grace alive and Adrian just had their long lost mate return with their salvation.

    Erid meets its saviors.

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    03 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 87

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    There's a version of events where Erid never manages to figure out unmanned probes.

    Ryland still has a lot of explaining to do. But he's been planning for how to do it this way.

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    28 May 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 9

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    Occasional records could be found in every alphabetised culture of the known world, for the word of a soulmate came through written word.

     

    Through her words he could almost see her, a caged, weeping creature of hardly sterner stuff. Soft spoken and gentle handed. And yet, there was steel underneath, seeping in between the ink of her words like the blood dripped between his own written hope.

     

    He found there was sweetness in her stubbornness, and poison behind her teeth. He’d imagine starlight in her eyes and fire upon her tongue, chilling frost crowning her brown in winter glory.

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    08 May 2026

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    Sometimes I'd forget

     

    Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.

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    Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors

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    04 May 2026

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    In relative terms, the trip from the Tau Ceti system to the 40 Eridani system takes the Hail Mary a little over three Earth years.
    This is what happens when you put two snarky aliens in a small, enclosed space for that long.

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    24 Apr 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 26

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    Rocky has spent 46 years in the Tau Ceti system. All of his crewmates die, Blip-A requires repairs on a daily basis, and Adrian probably thinks he is dead. He almost lost all of his hope, but then, out of nowhere, he sees the light from another ship.

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    18 Apr 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 55

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    Snapshots of Grace's life on Erid, and of those who love him along the way.

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    14 Apr 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 94

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    Grace takes a few hours to stargaze with what he has. Rocky tries to tag along.

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    13 Apr 2026

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    Rocky's main specialty was engineering, definitely not understanding aliens from a different solar system.

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    13 Apr 2026

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    Jesus, my back.

    I pause, gasping for breath — I'm genuinely sweating. And embarrassed. I wonder if Rocky can hear me losing to a slab of wood.

    God, I hope he can't. Please God.

    It's stuck behind a few empty crates and some miscellaneous spare lab supplies. A few beakers. A blender, for some reason. An ironing board. Why? Because go to hell, Ryland Grace, that's why. You can't have enough fuel to come back but you can have an ironing board with no iron. Here's two kilos of cement-flavoured coma slurry. Kill yourself.

    "I'm being dramatic," I tell myself aloud.

    I'm really not. Dying in space is a very dramatic situation.

    The ways that Rocky and Grace miss everything all the time, yet watch over each other, always.

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    09 Apr 2026

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    “I just think it’s kind of a messed-up thing to do to a baby,” I said.

     

    AKA: the one with time travel. When the opportunity arises, Rocky and Ryland can't turn down the chance to save Rocky's crew.

    It all kind of spirals from there.

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    Chapters:
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    07 Apr 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 40

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    Rocky desperately needs to talk to this alien ship, but it starts to run away! Fortunately, Rocky doesn’t give up easily. He’s going to find a way to talk to this skittish alien, or die trying.

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    07 Apr 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 67

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    Rocky starts to communicate with the alien ship. It turns out they want to talk to him. Now he has to do everything he can not to mess this up, so maybe they’ll be willing to help save his species.

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    Chapters:
    2/?
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    07 Apr 2026

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    “What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.

    “Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”

    “Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”

    In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.

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    Chapters:
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    07 Apr 2026

  19. Public Bookmark *

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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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    07 Apr 2026

  20. Public Bookmark *

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    Abby was thirteen when her favorite teacher was shot off into space with no chance of return.

    And she was thirty-three when that teacher saved Earth.

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    6/6
    Comments:
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    20,585

    06 Apr 2026

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