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    A little grey arm with the tiniest claw, sticking out of the left most egg. The arm is waving slowly, as if saying “Hello, a little help here?”

    “Movement detected.” Mary says again.

    Oh. Shit.

    The eggs! They’re hatching early!

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    13 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 36

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    “What? You’re not wanting to actually do this soap opera appearance, are you?” Rocky asked.

    Grace’s ears pulsed with blood flow and he gave a twitch of a shrug.

    “I mean…kinda?” he said. “I love As Erid Turns.”

    Rocky turned to Adrian.

    “Well?”

    “Well, what? I think he should do it,” Adrian said placidly.

    “Adrian! Grace is not some—cheap floozy of an entertainer! He’s a respected interstellar scientist!”

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    OR: Dr. Ryland Grace, unlikely Eridian soap opera star.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Where Susato disguises herself as ‘Ryutaro’ to attend law school at Imperial Yumei, unbeknownst to Rei.

    And where Rei falls for ‘Ryutaro,’ unbeknownst to Susato.

    -- Inspired by “The Guy She was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All!”

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    09 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 9

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    The strands give way easily under the sharp blades of the scissors, hair falling back against her forehead as it separates from the small piece Susato now holds in her hand.

    Looking at her reflection, she marvels at how the missing chunk of her bangs makes everything asymmetrical.

    It’s jarring, even improper. It’s undeniably fascinating.

    Susato makes an impulsive decision. It turns out alright, in the end.

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    09 Jun 2026

  5. Rec 9

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    In the depths of Fallen London, at the end of the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, Phoenix has a question of utmost importance to ask Edgeworth. Will he gain his heart's desire?

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace is having A Week. First he is practically kidnapped from his place of work, sent into one of the finest labs he has ever been in, and told he is going to be first contact with an alien.

    Except he's already been first contact with an alien. It's just that no one knows that.

    Confused, curious, and with minimal supervision, Ryland Grace makes the breakthrough of the century. What he doesn't know is that he's about to become a part of something much bigger. In the process something he thought he lost will be found, and maybe if he can avoid making a mess of things, he will get to come home.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    The engineer takes my hand. His skin runs hot. Very hot. He doesn't let go at what I would gauge as a socially-acceptable handshake time interval. Are we just holding hands in the middle of the lab-workshop space? Guess we are.

    "I'm Rocky," he finally introduces himself. He has a hint of an accent, something lilting, melodic. I can't really place it.

    "Rocky," I repeat, slowly. "Like the movies?"

    "No," Rocky deadpans, giving me a look like I'm stupid. "Like the rocks."

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    07 Jun 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    ABSOLUTELY PEAK

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    humans are...scary. Very scary.

    Adrian realizes this while chaperoning for a class field trip.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Grace clings to the zenonite ball as tightly as he can, trying to trick his mind into believing that the smooth, warm surface was what it was after. That this hug shared between two species unable to coexist in the same environment is enough to satisfy his human instincts.

    His skin prickles. The tears keep falling. It isn’t enough. And it will stay that way for as long as he is away from Earth.

    A shudder runs through the man at this bleak thought, the ever-expanding pit in his chest feeling as though it’s swallowing up his entire being.

    As if he heard the emotional casam split further, Rocky’s warbles take on a mournful croon. “Grace, tell Rocky what wrong. Please?”

    Grace presses his tear-stained cheek against the warm surface, sighing miserably.

    “I’m touch starved.”

     

    Or... Grace's years of isolation from humans result in severe touch starvation. Rocky takes one look at this problem and says, "Hold my minerals."

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    05 Jun 2026

  11. Rec 35

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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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    05 Jun 2026

  12. Rec *

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    A series in which Rocky learns about humans through Ryland’s habits and actions.
    In summary, humans are…’unique’

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Basically what it says on the tin: the Eridians studying the leaky space blob Rocky brought back and being mildly horrified at, like, most of his weird habits and biology things.

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    04 Jun 2026

  14. Rec 19

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    “Does that make me wrong?” Grace whispers, his voice small and trembling. “Feeling like my home was never really a home?”

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    Grace thinks too much. Rocky is there to help him.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Grace has always been a teacher and it's not any different on Erid.

    These are his adventures with his pebbles (and Rocky and Adrian of course)

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    03 Jun 2026

  16. Rec 66

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    It’s gonna be a long trip.

    When I finally found Rocky, stranded in the middle of nowhere, I thought I was going to die. I thought I was going to slowly starve to death. But when I banged on the Blip-A’s hull and suddenly heard Rocky's voice through the radio, it was the best moment of my life.

    But, you know…. I am still, actually, going to starve to death. I hate it when reality sets in.

     

    On the long trip to Erid, Rocky and Grace discover music together. But for Grace, the road gets harder and harder.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    “Here? Here? Here?” He's not testing anymore. The little rascal has my body figured out and he goes for all my ticklish spots. Even through this new discovery, he's being careful not to hurt me.

    “Get-” I choke out through bubbling laughter, “Get off!”

    I try to push up, but he puts a limb on my back, pushing me down harder. I can't get up.

    The laughter dies.

    I can't get up.

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    02 Jun 2026

  18. Rec 18

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    Rocky was used to the rhythm of the alien heart, two-part harmony that only changed up when his human was upset or sleeping. Its steady song followed him to sleep and greeted him with the first notions of consciousness. A small thing really, between all the foreign sounds his human makes at the regular, with all of his squishy meat and never-closing soundhole.

    But he has grown to expect it nonetheless, a solid (if ever moving) point in the little space Grace called home. Even when his stupid human had the weird panic episodes, or got scared, it went faster, stronger, yes, but it was still Grace-sound, alive-sound, even if it did freak him out the first couple times.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    02 Jun 2026

  20. Rec 37

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    Rocky and Adrian learn how to send messages to Earth. It goes exactly the way you would expect.

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    02 Jun 2026

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