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    As he stared down into the lumpy grey goop that was his evening rations, he contemplated whether it was really worth it.

    They’d come a very long way just for Grace to give up and die at the last hurdle, both physically and emotionally. The Tau Ceti system was a long, long way away now, and Grace had faced not one but two highly emotional suicide missions. Three, if you counted the time before he was given a military grade roofie and hucked into space without his memories.

     

    Rocky and Grace make it back to Erid! Huzzah!
    Now they have to navigate all of... that.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    In a world where the Taumoeba never escape, Rocky and Grace stay on their separate paths, and all too soon Rocky is home to Adrian where he belongs. Eridani is restored to its full glow, but as time goes on, Sol stays dim. Every day that passes, Rocky gets dimmer too.

    Adrian decides enough is enough.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    ⟨⟨What—What happened, question? What was that, question??⟩⟩

    The notes were high with distress as Rocky shuddered, crouching down to make himself smaller. Oh. Oh no.

    Rocky didn't know about dreams.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    "Do Eridians have mental sicknesses? Stuff that's not a physical problem. An emotional problem."

    "Yes. We already talked about this. Some are crazy..." His body language is apprehensive. You can tell by the way his fingers are curled.

    I frown. "I'm not crazy."

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    28 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 95

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    When Ryland Grace wakes up, all knows is the weight of the world has been put on his shoulders. He isn't an astronaut. He isn't the best of the best like Yao and Ilyukhina are. He doesn't even know why he volunteered. But his crewmates never needed another astronaut. They need him. And they aren't alone.

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    AU in which Yao and Ilyukhina survive the coma because I love them and I need Grace to have human contact. AKA Rocky returns home with three weird aliens.

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    28 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 22

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    Eva Stratt has watched the videos Grace sent to Earth several times. However, she finds a new file. Get ready to witness Rocky's anger towards Earth

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    28 Jun 2026

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    “Eva Stratt, you are under arrest.”

    She wonders what they’ll charge her with as they place the handcuffs around her wrists. Environmental destruction, certainly. Extortion and racketeering? Probably. Someone could make the case for smuggling—it would be interesting if they got her on piracy. She turns to give her final good-byes, and her heart stops.

    “Ryland Grace, you are under arrest.”

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    Eva Stratt was prepared to be the world's scapegoat. She'd angered too many people and skirted too many rules not to be. She didn't expect Ryland Grace to get arrested right alongside her.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    He sees them round the corner, Rocky's brown and green carapace leading ahead of a larger Eridian. They were a gradient of blues and greens, the colors reminded him of turquoise, or maybe jade, and had spots of warm black dotted around their form. They had a splotch of brown on one their arms, mirroring the one he has seen on Rocky.

    "Grace!" Rocky bounds over, the other Eridian swiftly coming with him. "Grace meet Mate Adrian. Adrian meet Friend Grace."

    It really is them Grace thinks, giddy with joy.

    Grace meets Adrian of Erid

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    28 Jun 2026

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    The humans threw Grace away. Grace, who worked so hard to save them, who came back for Rocky when he realized the taomoeba would eat through Rocky's ship. Grace, who gave up his chance to go home to save Erid too.

    And then Rocky finds out exactly how Grace ended up in space.

    They're not giving him back now. Grace will always have a place on Erid where he's beloved and cherished the way he should be, even if it takes Grace a while to believe he's worth that. Rocky may or may not have plans to fix up the Hail Mary for the trip back anyways- there were a few things they wanted to say directly to Stratt's face.

     

    Updates every other day bc i have no chill and can't be bored

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    27 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 17

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    The Hail Mary quilt wasn't Grace's project, and it wasn't ever supposed to be his quilt, either. But when he stumbled on it in the storage cupboard, he found himself weeping into it anyway.

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    27 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 32

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    The meeting with Adrian didn't go exactly as planned, and uh... Grace crashes out about it.

     

    "And… Rocky says Grace acts different when Adrian Rocky visit. Acts normal when Rocky visits. Rocky can tell. Said to give Grace time, that Grace may be shy. But… Adrian come more often, and Grace act more differently. Starts to ask Rocky Adrian to leave early. Tells Rocky not to visit. Rocky is sad sad sad sad sad sad," they warble.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    Afterwards Rocky reassured me that it is pretty common for pebbles to earn their first nicks and cracks at that age. Their outer shell isn’t fully developed yet and not quite as hard as that of an adult. He proudly showed me various indents and hairline fractures on his own body, telling me about how he got them in his youth during adventures with his friends or just messing around.

    It’s a sign of growth, he told me. A sign of getting older and maturing.

    Not a big deal. Happens all the time.

    I believe him. Tori was in good spirits afterwards. Their crying was more because of the shock and the scare, not any actual pain. We finished the rest of the day without any further incidents and then I wished them all a happy holiday and returned to my home and got into bed.

    Where I stayed for the next eighteen hours.

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    There is an accident in the classroom. Everyone tells Grace that it's not a big deal.
    But then why can't he stop thinking about it?

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    26 Jun 2026

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    “Oh, yeah.” He uncapped the marker with his teeth and tasted cheap plastic. Dragged a line through the seven hard enough the tip squeaked. “Seven days.”

    In four days, they would be picked up by Erid’s imaging system. In five, radar communication. In seven, Rocky would be home, Erid would be saved, and Ryland might finally get something other than Tauamoeba slurp.

    He should have been counting down too.

    Or: Grace and Rocky save stars, and above all, Rocky gets to go home. To Erid. To Adrian. Then why does Ryland feel so empty?

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    25 Jun 2026

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    Yao was a principled man, glad to be working with a crew of brave volunteers from all over the world who came together to save the stars. It's probably for the best he doesn’t find out how must of the crew were recruited.
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    Aka, Yao finds out how most of the science and engineering team were recruited by Stratt.

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    25 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 20

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    Illumi is ever a contradiction.

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    25 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 11

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    "Grace sleep less with nightmares. Grace get stupid. Grace get mean. Why Grace not tell Rocky about nightmares, question?"

    Him and his stupid genius brain! Why can't he just get it's not easy? Why can't he just leave well enough alone? Oh, right, because we're friends and he cares about me and he's worried about me. I just can't man up and tell him what's going on because I'm afraid he will either literally or figuratively explode.

    "Social discomfort." I roll away from him, shielding myself in the quilt.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    Grace doesn't have a very good estimation of himself. He has no idea how much people genuinely like him, especially (most) of the people involved in this project. Ikukhina meets him, finds him adorable, and immediately decides to adopt him. Yáo is the only one who can even somewhat contain her but finds himself also somehow adopting Grace in the process.

    Then Grace wakes up with amnesia.

    What happens when Grace remembers he was sent against his will? What happens when he still meets Rocky first, they still have to go to Erid, and now the three of them have to duke it out for custody/best friend rights of Grace?

     

    Updates every other day and has a heavy focus on the initial trio friendship before Rocky shows up, so it'll be a while before we meet our favorite alien spider rock

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    25 Jun 2026

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    When Eva Stratt was ten years old, she conducted her first research project. Her teacher instructed the class to create a poster board about space and present it to their peers. They spent the rest of the day in the school library, checking out books on the planetary system, the moon landing, and black holes. It was in that room, perusing the shelves of thin, applesauce-smeared paperbacks, that she learned about Laika.

    Laika was a small stray dog recovered from the streets of Moscow, and was the first animal to orbit the Earth in 1957. She did not survive the trip, but her sacrifice was a major contribution to science and space exploration.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    “Hey! It’s a lot up here, okay? It’s a normal response to stress.” He rubs a hand over his face. “Okay, I cried a lot down there, too. But not in class! Not if I could help it. But having to say goodbye, gosh, I’ve never been good at that.” Grace laughs, but it sounds sad. His mouth is shut firmly, and he leans against my ball. He’s so soft, his body melds to the side of the xenonite with ease. “I can’t imagine what a mess I’ll be when—” he cuts himself off, but I know what was coming next.

    I’m not sure how I’ll be when we say goodbye either. It didn’t seem like it’d matter so much at first, after all, if we part ways, it means we succeeded. I’d be going back to Erid, to Adrian, to home. But I’d be leaving behind Grace. The thought of that is unpleasant. It sinks deep in me; the emotion is painfully familiar. It’s been a long time since I’ve had anyone to mourn losing anyone again. I don’t want to think about it, I’m not ready.

    or 5 times Rocky feels something for Grace. 1 time he does something about it.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Adrian wants nothing to do with the alien Rocky brought home. When Rocky is rendered incapacitated, Adrian has no choice but to step up and care for Grace

    Surely they wont develop feelings for the leaky space blob, right?

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    23 Jun 2026

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