Desilite

a picture of a trilobite



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    "There is no point in any of this rumination. You are gone. You are nothing now but a muse, something that I can conjure upon command and listen. You are nothing more now than a lullaby, a prayer, a dissonant, augmented, ugly, beautiful melody."

    Rocky and Grace part ways for their respective planets. It should feel like a victory. It doesn't.

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    It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.

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    16 May 2026

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    In this BBC documentary special, Philomena Cunk travels to the planet Erid to pose the questions no one else would even think to ask.

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    12 May 2026

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    “Picture: you, human, stranded in ship in space. Me: big bad space pirate, here to capture you and—”

    “Have your way with me?” grins Grace. “Put your claws alllll over me? Claim me as part of your booty?”

    Rocky reaches down and flicks him. “Grace make sound so stupid. Promise: is not stupid. Could be fun! Grace show me around ship, ready to do anything to convince me to let go free. Maybe Grace even show me own body."

    “Oooooh, and then you could be like: ‘I’ll let you go, but since you’re the only human I’ll ever meet, I have to study you. Experiment on you. For the sake of interstellar biology.’”

    “Well... word ‘probe’ did appear much during research."

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    12 May 2026

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    “Proof of concept,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. “We’ve tested it thoroughly to ensure it fits the specified nutritional profile, and several members of our team have ingested small amounts of it to ensure there were no adverse effects.”

    “You ate some of it?” I ask, rudely. I’m too irate to mind my language. Who do they think they are? That meat is for Grace. In a way, that meat is Grace.

    “Yes,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. They and the rest of the human life support thrum know better than to be offended by my occasionally strange behaviour. “Obviously we weren’t going to risk the life of Honoured Grace on a completely untested technology.”

    That doesn’t mean much. There’s a lot of things that are safe for ingestion by Eridians that would outright kill a human.

    Trust Grace, I remind myself. He’ll have thought of all this.

    (OR: Grace's meburgers from the book epilogue. Let's talk about those!)

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    12 May 2026