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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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    08 Jun 2026

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    ”Being stubborn!” Rocky accuses. ”Making excuses, statement!” And yeah, I don’t have any defense for that one.

    “Will you watch me sleep? I want to take a nap,” I ask without preamble. I’m tired and don’t have the energy to argue right now. Or eat for that matter.

    ”Yes. Always watch, fact,” he agrees immediately. ”Still mad. But Rocky watch, statement.”

    I set aside the laptop, rubbing at my eyes with a tired sigh as I get comfortable right there in the little ‘nest’ as Rocky likes to call it. It makes me feel just a little better. I’m drifting off before I even realize. 

     

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    It's been nine months since Grace woke up in space. Stratt only planned for them to be alive for nine months. Which means that Grace has ran out of a very important item: his antidepressants.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    One thing that Rocky has learned about humans is that they like to look at pictures.

    Maybe. Or maybe it is just a particular habit of his Grace, who seems to pass more and more time sitting in the projection room and looking at his rolling images of Earth.

    Rocky likes Earth. Especially the beach. That’s Grace’s favorite place, too.

    But the pictures don’t change. Not more than they did the first time Grace showed him, with the waves crashing up onto the sand and the leaves of the trees rustling in the wind.

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    Rocky's perspective of Grace's depression on the journey to Erid.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    “Friend Grace, question?”

    Rocky’s melodious voice is quiet, uncertain.

    He probably can’t tell if I’m awake or asleep.

    And, honestly, neither can I. The hallucinations and psychosis are almost impossible for me to decipher from reality. Rocky might not even be here at all.

    Just in case, I offer a weak hum. Just in case Rocky is here. Just in case I’m not dead.

    Am I dead?

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    07 Jun 2026

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    “You flatter me.”

    Grace shakes her head. “I— I really don’t mean to.”

    “But you do.” Adrian insists. “You name planet that saved the universe after me. You name planet that seeded all life after me… now you tell me that I am something humans would like to adorn themselves with?”

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    Or: My Mate nearly died in space and all I got was an exophilic need for the alien he brought back.

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    07 Jun 2026