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  1. Public Bookmark 29

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    Dr. Grace is severely sleep deprived and slips back into his teaching habits for dealing with kids while actively dealing with adult scientists and politicians

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    17 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    Grace is made to push through a bad flu bug at a conference because Eva expects him to still give his presentations. Carl does what he can to help, but when Grace passes out in his third lecture, he has to put his foot down.

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    16 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    Rocky tries to teach Grace how to speak Eridian. It goes…okay. And strangely emotionally.

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    16 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 42

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    Grace was no linguist, he'd actually argue that he was sub-par for the course.
    Rocky, despite claims of his 'superior language skills' was not a linguist, either.
    As a result, over the course of their years in space together, the two went through a few misunderstandings.

    (aka 3 times Rocky corrected a misunderstanding Grace had due to their language barrier, +1 time Grace was the one to correct Rocky)

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    16 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    Rocky & Grace attempt to learn each others' languages.
    The main body prose is in English, but the dialog is not.
    Grace's dialog is in toki pona and Rocky's is music.

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    16 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 3

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    Grace tries to help Rocky cope through an Eridian Day of Mourning holiday on the Hail Mary. He might not know the customs, but he knows Rocky.

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    15 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 31

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    “Grace Rocky very different,” Rocky says, quiet. “And also… same.”

    “Mhm,” Grace affirms. His chest vibrates; the hum washes over Rocky like a warm blanket. “I hope so.”

    Under the focus of Rocky’s new xenonite suit, each of the Hail Mary’s crew examine the meaning of sleeping together.

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    15 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 40

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    Ryland Grace is so close to finally cracking these numbers, he can feel it.

    Maybe he should’ve slept a bit longer last night. Or, at all.

    Ryland Grace overworks himself trying to prove a point while preparations for the Hail Mary mission are running at high speed. What kind of consequences is that going to have for him, the project, or his coworkers turned friends?

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    15 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 16

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    "Wait," She repeats, breathless, "Stop running."

    The man frowns, "We need to find the other people."

    "There isn't-"

    How did she know that?

    Same way she knew Russian or that the dead guy was her friend. She just knew.

    "There isn't anyone else."

    _____________

    Instead of passing away on the journey there, Ilyukhina finds herself awake on board the Hail Mary with no memory of how or why she is there and a random science teacher with the same memory problems to keep her company. Now, she just has to try and save the world while battling the random assortment of memories that threaten to undo the calm facade she had so carefully built up.

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    15 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 13

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    "I am bored. I am beyond bored. I am every possible synonym for bored.

    I am sitting on a spaceship, with the first sentient alien ever known to humankind, more than a decade of light years away from earth and heading to an alien planet. And I am bored out of my freaking mind."

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    Rocky demands Grace spends the remaining four years teaching him primary school science so Grace doesn't go crazy. Grace cries a lot.

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    15 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 21

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    Grace is crabby and picks a fight with Rocky, who doesn't realize that something is very wrong until he asks him to watch him sleep and wakes up to an overly emotional, sleepy, disoriented Grace. Turns out, Mary is broken, leading to toxic atmospheric changes on Grace's side of the ship. Rocky fixes. 

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    14 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 15

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    Day 7! they aren't in order because I'm coming back to get some that i missed! Grace deals with some stamina issues and post-exertional illness on Erid. He worries that admitting it might keep him from being a good uncle to Rocky and Adrian's pebbles, but Rocky reassures him otherwise.

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    12 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 60

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    A handful of days into the journey to Erid aboard the Hail Mary, and Rocky hasn't slept. Rocky hadn't adjusted well to being alone again, and isn't totally sure he isn't still alone.

    Ryland Grace to the rescue.

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    11 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 45

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    When a micrometeoroid punches through the Hail Mary's hull, Ryland Grace has minutes of air and one job. Weld the breach before the ship bleeds out into the dark.
    It should be simple. Get out, seal the hole, get back inside. But since when have things ever been simple for Grace?

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    Chapters:
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    11 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 44

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    You realise that you're pulling your limbs closer to yourself, hunkering down, and force yourself to relax. There's nothing to be scared of. Grace isn't sick, you would have noticed. Right? And even if it is sick, it's not dying, its ship is protected from radiation, so it won't be like- it's going to wake up. You will watch over it until it wakes up.

     

    Grace has a nightmare. Rocky takes it badly.

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    10 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 7

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    It takes Grace a while to wonder what crying might look like for an eridian, if they had any such direct equivalent at all.

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    09 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 14

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    After the explosion, my first instincts are not to check on myself, but to make sure that Grace is safe.

    (An accident leaves Rocky trapped under rubble, with nobody close enough to hear him.)

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    09 Jun 2026

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    Hours later, Rocky wriggles awake. The pain has eased. His heartbeats have slowed. His cells are still functioning. There is no falling apart. He can hear the scritch-scratch of his five claws on Xenonite. He can hear the machines, humming their false song. He can hear the silent expanse of space. The distant stars. His friends, dead in the hull. And the building feeling, deep in every cell — every fibre of his body — that something is so incredibly wrong.

    Rocky knows this disease. Exhaustion. And all alone in space, there is no cure.

    It is a primal requirement that Eridians sleep only under the trusting gaze of their companions. Rocky spends forty-six years alone in space.

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    07 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 28

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    Grace gets hiccups for no good reason, and he can’t get them to stop

    Enter: Rocky

    Language:
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    Comments:
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    06 Jun 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 8

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    Doing EVAs is thirsty work. Who knew that, even in zero gravity, moving around so much is pretty demanding? Of course, I've gotten way better at it. Even Rocky agrees, though mainly when we put it in contrast with my piloting. Naturally, if I put my work up against his engineering skills, I still come short and he, just as much as I, wishes I had a few more hands, I guess. 

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    Chapters:
    1/1
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    63
    Bookmarks:
    8
    Hits:
    365

    04 Jun 2026

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