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    “Who complained about you eating, question?” Someone must’ve said something. He’s had so many visitors in the last couple of days. Who was it? Grace has never questioned this part of himself. Grace huffs at me.

    “No one! I’m just trying to be polite! Eridians have special soundproof eating rooms, shouldn’t I?”

    “You are not Eridian!”

    He doesn’t need to meet our standards; he’s his own species! Some things he might need to change in his daily life to adapt to Erid life, but his food habits don’t need to be one of them. My words don’t comfort Grace like I thought they would. Grace shrinks into himself, and I wish I were on his side to hug him.

    or the Entities provide Grace with a culture teacher to prepare for life on Erid and he gets his first taste of Eridian inhospitality.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    “Humans will pack bond with anything, y’know,” I say. “It’s actually kind of embarrassing.”
    “Everything human Grace does is embarrassing. Need definition.”
    “Pack bonding?”
    “Yes.”
    “Sharing affinity with and building collaborative relationships and even unbreakable bonds with other species or things. Human kids will humanize or anthropomorphize rocks and take them as pets, for example."
    “Grace.”

    Or: Punch drunk midnight conversations aboard the Hail Mary.

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    03 Jun 2026

  3. Rec 16

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    Sleeping is so much easier with Rocky around. Well… maybe not necessarily easier, but… better?

    Before I met Rocky, I mostly just felt too awful all the time to get much rest. And after we parted ways, the nightmares that had been taunting me on and off started coming with a vengeance. The nightmares aren't gone now, of course. But it's better.

    (or: "nights" on the hail mary)

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Rocky finds Yáo's gun and things kind of go downhill from there.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    "Please proceed to the treatment area," Mary repeats.

    "My ankle is broken! I can't walk!" I shout.

    "Please proceed to the treatment area."

    "Bring the treatment area over here!"

    She's silent for a second longer than usual. It fills me with a brief, fleeting hope. "Please proceed to the treatment area."

    "Screw you, Mary."

    (Or: Grace breaks his ankle. It's bad.)

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    02 Jun 2026