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  1. Public Bookmark 27

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    Humans are, as a general rule, much more sensitive and vulnerable than Eridians.

    Grace manages to find the one instance in which the opposite is true, and proceeds to exploit the heck out of it.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    “Don’t have to face any specific direction to talk to you, Grace,” Rocky says. “Am radially symmetrical. Hearing organs on whole body. Grace biologist, should know this.”

    I suddenly regret teaching him literally anything about biology. Some things more than others.

    “Figure of speech,” I say. That’s so not the point. “Listen, is this about the other day? Because we can pretend it never happened, if it’s making you uncomfortable.”

    Rocky skids to a stop. He slowly backs up a few paces, and now I can tell he is actually focusing on me, even though it doesn’t really matter which facet of his body is pointed in my direction, due to the aforementioned radial symmetry.

    “Not uncomfortable,” Rocky says. “Interesting display of human culture and biology. Grace very kind to share with me."

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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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    22 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    “... did you want to talk about, Jason?” Dick hears Clark ask.

    “Um, I…” Jason takes a breath. “I know it’s kinda… weird, and maybe you won’t want to, but I-I talked to Leila about it and she said if I wanted to ask then I should just ask—”

    “Jason,” Bruce interrupts, “it’s alright. What do you want to ask us?”

    Jason is quiet for a few minutes. Dick is about to poke his head around the corner to look at him when he finally speaks up.

    “I was… thinking maybe I could start calling you guys Dad and Pa?”

    Dick’s stomach drops.

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    Jason asks to start calling Bruce and Clark his dads. Dick... doesn't handle it well.

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    22 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 84

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    The first time he feels the terror, he doesn't understand why. As he barely hangs onto consciousness, the soft silicon presses against his face, enveloping his nose and mouth. The spark of terror catches fire in his chest and quickly spreads across his body. It ignites a screaming inferno within his skull. He forces his eyes open. Everything is red. There's shapes above him. Pure oxygen fills his airways, stale and clinical and familiar and wrong.
    Grace's memories of his unwilling medical sedation and forced sacrifice return, vivid and violent. Later, on the journey back to save Rocky, he has night terrors. The thin lines between consciousness, unconsciousness, memory, and nightmare blur.

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