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    Ryland Grace knows his time is coming.

    Worst of all, Ryland thinks Rocky knows it, too.

    But... there might be another way for him to keep living.

    ("So," Ryland says, hands clasped on the table. “An artificial body, huh?”

    “Yes.” Rocky sounds concerned. “We went over this, Grace.”)

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    Rocky doesn't want to lose Grace to age.
    But Rocky is the greatest engineer. He fix.

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    "It takes me another moment before I realize that I wasn’t hurting from the fall. There’s no struggle to get air back into my lungs. I’ve tumbled end over end, and sort of landed upright. All my limbs are sprawled in every direction.
    Rocky skitters down to my level, right up against the xenonite. “Grace fall! Hurt question? Okay okay okay?”
    With all my brainpower, I focus on responding. 'Y-ye-es,' I manage to chirp. I freeze. Process.
    That was definitely not English. Or any other human language. I didn’t move any muscles to speak.
    'Y-ees,' I say again, and the same chirping note comes out. Inside me, I feel the shifting of five gas-filled… things. That note came from me. But it sounded like Rocky."

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    In which Grace wakes up as an Eridian. And then a human. Eridian again.

    Figuring out how to walk and sing is the first step. The rest will have to come later.

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  4. Public Bookmark 47

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    The intruder enters the kitchen slowly, limbs held low to the ground. Their carapace tilts from side to side as they draw near, fixing their auricles on me.

    The xenosuit they have on looks cobbled together, almost experimental. It’s not see-through like my team’s suits are. It wasn’t designed with my light detectors in mind. Instead, it’s dark and opaque, and not at all helping to dispel the impression of a masked burglar in my home.

    I’ve never seen that body language in person before, but I understand it on an instinctual level. Eridians are the apex predators of their planet. It’s a hunting stance, and I am the prey.

    or: Grace experiences a home invasion on Erid.

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    Grace pushes himself back from the micro-scope, a movement he has done many many times before without any problems. This time, though, his clumsiness makes him fall back.

    Generally, Grace is okay at catching himself. Most of the time he tries to pretend he didn’t trip, or simply yells “I’m fine!” after he straightens up.

    Grace doesn’t catch himself. He falls, and his body hits the ground, and Rocky hears horrible, terrible snaps.

    Grace’s body is not supposed to make those noises. They are breaking noises.

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    On the way to Erid, Grace takes a tumble and breaks something. Rocky has a bad time.

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