TheresNoWay



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    "Will you two stay, please?" Grace felt his eyes slipping shut, but he needed to know, needed their presence besides him.

    "Until you tell us to leave, we will stay, Doctor Grace." Yáo, the captain that he was, stated solemnly

    "You have and never will be alone, Grace." And there was Ilyukhina’s bell-like singsong, following him to his sleep.

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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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    Olesya wonders if Dr. Xi has picked up on this ‘thing’ that everyone seems to be thinking about, but no one is saying. The way Grace seems to go limp, pliant, easy when touched. It’s the alcohol, but it’s something else too. Something unquantifiable.

    Grace doesn’t appear to know that he’s the new variable in their equation, the puzzle that everyone is trying to solve.

    or: Grace gets cuddly when he's drunk.

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    Why can't he see? There's just this nothingness as far as he can perceive. No shapes dance in the darkness, as if he had simply had his eyelids glued shut. In fact, he can't feel that he even has eyelids. His body is numb. He can only feel the plushness of the mattress by how it cradles his body— There's no sensation other than pressure. Not the smooth texture of his sheets, the soft backing of his quilt. Nothing.

    He tries to move again. An arm, this time. Lifting it feels decidedly wrong. His musculature is all messed up. It doesn't rise from his shoulder. It feels more like it comes from his flank— and there's the heavy issue, again. It feels like someone strapped lead weights to him. Had the Eridians done something to his biodome while he slept? ----- or, the grace-rocky body swap fic

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace saved Earth. He saved Erid. He was supposed to die a hero somewhere between the stars.

    Instead, he kept living.

    As the years pass on Erid, Ryland finds himself caught in a strange kind of grace period: a life he was never meant to have, in a body and mind slowly losing the battle against time. Far from Earth, alongside Rocky, Adrian and the world that became his second home, Grace has to answer a question no mission training could prepare him for:

    What happens after the hero survives?

     

    or Grace learning to be an Eridian

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    For once, Rocky didn’t comment on my leaking face. Didn’t call me gross or make fun of me otherwise. So I did it for him.
    “Yeah,” I sniffed, half-laughing through it. “Humans leak, ew.”
    Because, well—
    This might be the last time I ever cried.
    “No, Grace leak as much as want. Is okay!” Rocky rushed in immediately, all urgency and overlapping chords.
    “Well, you weren’t going to, so someone else had to do it.”
    He paused. “No understand. Is joke, question?”
    “Yeah,” I said, sniffling a little. “It’s a joke.”
    “Still no understand humor.”

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