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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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    21 May 2026

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    There’s nothing in her stomach to come up when she retches. Her body heaves for the sake of heaving. It all seems wrong. If she opens the door, she should see him standing proudly in his brown coat and his beret, with a scarf wrapped around his neck. She should be able to look into his eyes, smile, and tell him they’ve won. That they’re the Imperial heroes they’ve always dreamt of being, and now, having claimed victory, they can go home and be together for the rest of their lives. They can put this Ghorman mess — and all the smaller messes it encompassed — behind them.

    I didn’t want this.

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    Syril dies. Dedra mourns.

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    08 May 2025

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    pain and agony

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    One of the most common visual methods of measuring stress in birds is to observe the quality of the individual’s feathers. Stress and boredom can lead to over or under-grooming, discoloration of the feathers, or poor overall feather quality.

    Or,

    Hypnos and Thanatos spend some time together.

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    30 May 2024

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    Grace Chasity has a weak wrist. It cracks loudly when she moves it too quickly and it aches softly when it is cold.
    In her eighteen years of life, she has broken her arm on three separate occasions. The first time was when she was five years old. The second time, she was eleven. The third time is yet to happen. Soon, her right wrist will snap, in the same place as twice before. A very unlucky and unlikely thing to happen. But it will happen.
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    Grace lives through an unforgettable and life-changing 48 hours.

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    30 May 2024

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    It's Peter Spankoffski's fault that his best friends are dead. Simple causality.

     

    Or, snapshots from senior year.

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    30 May 2024