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    Grace was a chemistry guy: his world was provable and predictable. Every quantum physicist that Grace knew had a wild-eyed, pulling-my-hair-out kind of energy, so it felt like a very bad sign that the most grounded explanation for Simon's presence here might be "wormholes."

    Grace knocked his glasses off his nose to scrub his eyes, leaving them dangling from one ear. Talking to Simon had given him more questions than answers. What else could he observe about the man? What were the objective facts?

    He picked up his marker and wrote:

    -Handsome

    Really, Grace?

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    08 Jun 2026

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    In which Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu, upon reuniting in the middle of Jin Lan city's plague, are caught within a lover's curse before they can even share a word: by day, Shen Qingqiu is a beautiful crane with a deep fascination for Luo Binghe's curls; by night, Luo Binghe is the black wolf who trails after Shen Qingqiu like a shadow.

    Somehow, this turns out to be a blessing in disguise.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    “Did you guys ever have kids- or hatchlings I guess?”
    Rocky goes silent. Not simply in terms of speech. Eridians make noise almost constantly, like the humming of an old CRT. When he goes silent like that...
    “We tried.”

     

    Rocky and Adrian had a failed clutch that left lasting scars on them both. After all of this time, is it time to try again? Grace sure thinks so.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

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    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    Sometimes I'd forget

     

    Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.

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    Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors

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    22 May 2026