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  1. Public Bookmark 73

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    When the new human started asking for Grace, the Eridians did everything in their power to accommodate.
    Grace was waiting on the other side, flanked by a pair of Eridians he named Quartz and Ruby. He wrung his hands, an anxious tick that the handlers recognize, as the entourage with their new human entered.
    The new human startled at seeing Grace. His eyes darted around the biosphere, but they always ended up right back on the other human, as if trying to understand what he was seeing.
    “I know this is a lot,” Grace said, placating with his hands up and visible. Inhibiting human vision was seen as a threat, as Grace had once explained. “I’m Grace. I—Have we met before? I don’t think we have, but they said you were asking for me, so I’m not sure—“
    The new human finally stopped examining his surroundings and frowned at him. “You’re not Grace.”

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    A new human arrives on Erid. He's weirdly knowledgeable about Eridians and even shares a name with Rocky. Even weirder, he claims to be best friends with an Eridian named Grace.

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    26 Jul 2026

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    Just as Grace tuned and headed to the dormitory, his foot banged into the nearest set of drawers. He let out a high-pitched yelp at the pain that shot through him.

    Worse, embarrassment shot through him. He had let the sound escape him in his surprise.

    Rocky startled at the noises. "Grace is okay, question?"

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    25 Jul 2026

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    “I wonder how things would be if we’d evolved on the same planet,” Grace says, leaning his forearms on his elevated knee. The one kept up by Rocky’s body. It puts even more weight on him, and Rocky feels the texture of Grace’s shoe through the xenonite, the bumps and ridges, the rocks and leaves stuck to the bottom. “You think we’d eat each other?”

    It takes every ounce of self control for Rocky to keep the noise he makes somewhat dignified. He kind of needs Grace to stop talking.

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    Or: Rocky learns about persistence hunting, and it’s both the most terrified and the most aroused he’s ever been.

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    25 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 95

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    Rocky has some thoughts about the strange, alien habits of his human friend, Grace.

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    25 Jul 2026

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    "You can literally hear inside me when you focus, bud. Has observing the action of my gallbladder in HD made you think less of me as a person, or humanity as a whole?"

    [Yes,] Rocky says without hesitation, which makes Grace choke on a laugh. He amends, […at first. Then I get used to. Kind of cute now. Humans need infinity liquids to do basic process, always new mucus…]

    "I bet I'm gonna find your ultra-high-temp organs super cute too," Grace offers with an irrepressible grin, "and actually, okay, this strikes me as a morale problem. You're getting too down on yourself. I promise you there is nothing I could find rearranging your—" Nope. "—digging around in there that would shame the entire Eridian race."

    [No way for you to know this,] Rocky says flatly.

    "There definitely is, because I'm gonna shame the entire human race first."

    This is how they spend the next three days on the glove box addition while Mary reads to them from the unreleased 2021 NEISS report, filtered by incidents requiring extraction of foreign objects from the 'lower trunk' or 'pubic region'.

    (or, Rocky eats something inedible. Grace helps. They both get Really Weird About It.)

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