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    A beautiful day in the life of Ryland Grace on Erid.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    “Cute?” Grace repeated, half strangled. “I'm not cute!”

    “You no get to decide. Rocky decide you cute. Like companion animal. Not need be perfect. Not need be hero. Is enough be cute.”

    “Are you calling me your pet?” Grace asked. “That is so, so, condescending–”

    “Yes. Grace is like Rocky pet. Everything Grace does is cute cute cute. Grace not need prove anything. Grace not need be worthy. Grace just need keep being cute. Rocky take care of Grace. Rocky responsible pet owner.”

    Grace’s throat was suddenly dry.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    One Grace-sleep is not so long.

    It is not “night,” but Grace calls it night, and so Rocky does too. One human night. One third of one human day. One three-hundred-thousandth of Rocky’s life so far.

    This is what Rocky tells himself. He folds up on his xenonite shelf above Grace’s sleeping area, and he listens, and he fiddles with his clock, and he tells himself that it is not so long.

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    Rocky has lived through the deaths of many of his friends. He does not want to lose Grace.

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    09 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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    09 Jun 2026

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    “Grace safe now,” Rocky repeated. “Grace safe with Rocky.”

    Of course he was safe here -- or as safe as an untrained astronaut could be on a jury-rigged ship rocketing through deep space on a mission he only half understood with his alien best friend, anyway. But there had been a time…

    He wasn’t ready to say it out loud. Not yet. Maybe not ever. But part of him was sure he’d experienced… something. Something worse than being held down, sedated, and then forced into a suicide mission. Something really bad. Something unspeakable.

    (Grace has nightmares. He starts to piece together what happened to him before he left academia.)

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    08 Jun 2026