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    “Are you going to tell me what I did wrong, or are you just going to give me the silent treatment for the next four years?” 

    “Human treatment to induce silence?” Rocky perks up. “Good plan. You teach. I administer.”

    (or: the long, bumpy road to the truth) 

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    18 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 61

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    It's been a long road to Tau Ceti and the other end of Ryland Grace's Red string of fate. He thought he could be reasonably sure what waited for him at the end of it. However, it seems that the Universe has a few surprises still up Her sleeve.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    Something was standing above his towel.

    No… someone.

    They seemed to be observing the towel, claws tapping against the material with what he took as curiosity, pinching it between the appendage.

    Was it Rocky? It’d make sense, the Eridian would certainly have something harsh to say about him leaving his stuff laying around. He always had some mean quip to insult his shoddy human memory.

    He opened his mouth to defend himself before Rocky could say something snappy, when the figure then moved, stocky legs rising from beneath their carapace and lifting them to their full standing height.

    They were tall. Too tall.

    That wasn’t Rocky.

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    Grace receives an unexpected visitor one night in his home on Erid.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    A curious Eridian breaks into Grace’s biodome while he’s sleeping, and learns that a human scared out of sleep will often wake up swinging

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    17 Jun 2026

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    The awareness of time is a delicate thing.

    It is slipping rapidly from Grace's fingers. Grace, who is starving to death, who is still recovering from the most precise amnesia Earth could give him, who turned around and left Earth in the hands of the Beetles save his one dearest companion even though it would kill him, is still a scientist at heart. Scientists solve problems. He finds ways to keep track.

    Rocky wouldn't approve, but what Rocky doesn't know won't hurt him.

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    17 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 73

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    “Grace have stripes, question?”

    I pause my movement to look over at my shipmate. My shirt is scrunched up by my shoulders, unmoving since I froze mid pulling it up over my head. I relax my arms, but don’t drop them, to consider what he could possibly be talking about.

    “What?” I called out toward him.

    “Grace has stripes on skin, statement. Rocky did not know.” He pauses and makes a chiming sound, “Not important. Observation.”

    I look down at my expanse of skin. Stripes? Where would there be– Air leaves my body as my eyes land on the thin, barely there lines across the soft underpart of my left arm.

    “Ah. My arm?”

    Wait, no. That doesn’t make sense. He’s been around me this whole time, and I almost never wear long sleeves. I wear a jacket sometimes, sure, but plenty of t-shirts. T-shirts, like, all the time, actually. I decide that he’s not talking about the marks on my arm. He hadn’t said anything about them until now. He had to have noticed them before, so he means something else. Stripes. Stripes? Stripes!

    Ouegh. Stripes.

    “My stretchmarks.” I correct him.
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    Rocky sees Grace's stretchmarks, and it prompts a conversation about them and his self-harm scars.

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    17 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 37

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    We had gone zero-G about a day ago, and the tears in my eyes couldn’t fall. I shook my head to rid myself of them, watching as the liquid reflected the royal blues.

    Or: Grace and Rocky finally make it to Erid. This does not mean Grace's problems magically vanish.

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    17 Jun 2026

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    By our stars and saving grace,
    save us from this deep dark place.

    When you've been in darkness for too long, you tend to grab onto the first light you see. Sometimes that light happens to be an alien from a society light-years away from your own, and he happens to be exactly what you were looking for all along.

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    15 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

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    “Your life is very short, Saviour-Grace. The Elders have thrummed extensively about your future on Erid, and we offer you our most sacred of ceremonies.” He gestures to the xenonite-encased stones arrayed in front of him. “Are you aware of our creation myths?”

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    In which Grace participates in a sacred Eridian ceremony that he's sure has no chance of actually working. It would be rude to refuse, after all. There's no way that it'll actually do anything to him...

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    14 Jun 2026

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    A Project Hail Mary AU in which Grace (for Plot Reasons) develops the ability to shift between his human body and an Eridian form at will a couple of weeks after the Adrian Incident.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    +VI [157] Eridian years after Grace and Rocky arrive on Erid, the light from Sol returns to full strength.

    It's time to establish a relationship between the planets, requiring an interstellar journey. Eridians traveling to Earth, safely, utilizing both human and Eridian science and technology.

    The only problem?

    Earth does not know that Ryland Grace is still alive. Or that they've been living as an Eridian for years, with a family, loved by the entire planet.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    In Eridian years, Grace is a pebble. This is not an issue, until it is.

    Until Rocky suddenly realized that the humans did not pebble-proof their spaceship.

    ...how do you stop a pebble with the brain of an adult human teacher and scientist from wreaking havoc on their own ship?

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    14 Jun 2026

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    In a universe where your lost belongings apear with your soulmate for safekeeping, Ryland Grace receives very few objects from his soulmate—but he treasures every single one of them.
    The only thing keeping Rocky sane during his years stranded in space are the strange trinkets that appear around him from his soulmate. He is endlessly grateful for them finally appearing, now he would like to figure out what those things are; he desperately needs the distraction from his dead crew and the crushing silence of space.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Grace is dying. He and Rocky have made it all the way to Erid, but getting an emaciated, malnourished, mentally fragile Ryland Grace down to a planet designed to kill him is not a simple feat. Rocky desperate to bring his friend home with him, but Grace himself might become the biggest obstacle to seeing that dream realized.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Eridian Grace was raised on earth and packed away to go on the Hail Mary expenditure, with very little knowledge on how to be a proper astronaut. When Rocky meets him, he’s confused as to how there’s another life form that looks like him, he then learns the truth, and he’s pissed

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    13 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 71

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    Grace's journey to Erid is long and taxing. 4 whole years spent on the Hail Mary by Rocky's side has inevitably brought them closer together, despite the last year mostly consisting of Grace trying his very best not to die and keep himself from throwing up taumoeba into the bathroom. It’s only after his body has stopped fighting desperately for his life that his mind has the time to catch up on everything that has happened with Rocky…and on Earth without him. It doesn’t help that he’s going to be the only human on a planet of Eridians and that his best friend’s mate doesn’t seem to like him much at all.

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    Ryland Grace tries his best to begin to live again rather than just be alive, balancing his severe attachment to Rocky and helping to fix Rocky’s marriage to a frustrated Adrian.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace wakes up in space... and he's not alone.

    All three members of the Hail Mary wake up en route to the Tau Ceti system. One of them doesn't know who he is. All the answers they need are here for them to find, deep in interstellar space. They just don't know it yet.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Adrian's love has returned to them from the stars and brought along... an alien. All new things take an adjustment period. Some are just stranger than others.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    "Many stages in Eridian reproductive process. Rocky Adrian laying cycles finally sync up recently. So, Rocky Adrian think finally time for eggs. Adrian lay five eggs, very good. Only, strange thing happen. Rocky only lay one egg."

    “Oh,” I say. “That’s unusual, right?”

    "Very," Rocky hums.

    My throat tightens. "Does that mean there's something wrong? Are you sick?"

    Rocky makes a gesture I usually interpret as "not exactly". "Not sick," he says. "But doctors still worry. When Eridian start to make fewer eggs, this usually means laying period of life is over soon. Rocky very young for this. Rocky supposed to be in ideal time of life for laying. Rocky younger than Adrian, even." He shifts on three of his feet. Already, my mind is racing ahead, wondering -- "Doctors told Rocky to ask Grace, is this radiation side effect, question?"

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    06 Jun 2026

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