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  1. Public Bookmark 66

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    Grace is a school teacher that keeps having strange dreams about a man from space. Simon is a devout brother of Eden who keeps having dreams about a man who claims to be from Earth.

    As both of their lives get more dangerous, and they become more important to each other, how will their meetings change them? Can they both find the will to keep going? And is the barrier between dreams and reality as strong as they think?

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    07 Sep 2026

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    "The starvation-predation hypothesis (SPH) posits that, during food shortages, the risk of starvation requires prey to forego antipredator behavior to increase feeding rates. Such shifts in antipredator behavior may further increase the risk of predation..."

    Grace thought he'd be used to the hunger by now, but if anything, it was getting worse. Intense cravings, cramps, and miserable mood swings battered him endlessly as his body sent more and more desperate pleas for him to find and eat some actual food.

    It was his responsibility to get Rocky home. He couldn't risk being so sick that he couldn't pilot the ship. Grace flopped back in the pilot chair and looked over at the window in the side of the cockpit and found himself staring at the binary stars again. A bright blue-white dwarf and its dimmer red-gold mate, quietly dancing and switching sides every few days as they orbited their primary star together. The odd pair. The dancing couple.

    As far as Grace knew, they were reflecting off the retinas of the only creature who could sense light within about 15 light years.

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    07 Sep 2026

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    Ryland Grace can come to terms with being tranquilized, crammed into an aluminum tube strapped to two million kilograms of astrophage, and launched into deep space only to find his soulmate waiting on the other side.

    Being at the opposite end of that equation when it breaks the known barriers of special relativity is a lot harder to deal with.

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    A dead man washes up out of Ryland Grace's own personal sea.

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    17 Aug 2026

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    Ryland knew about torture in theory.

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    or: the one where Ryland is captured by the COI

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    27 Jul 2026

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    “Convict,” said the woman with the bone leg, her voice a dusky rattle. “You’ve been brought here to accompany a necromantic adept on a scientific expedition as his protector, in exchange for the pardon of your sentence.”
    “You’ll kind of be like my cavalier,” said the gorgeous man jovially.
    “He is not a cavalier,” corrected the woman. “Not even close.”

    aka: the locked tomb bloodymary au that (literally!) came to me in a dream. Simon is a former prisoner of the Ninth house prison tasked with protecting necromancer Ryland Grace and his best friend/fossil bone construct on a dangerous mission to a planet full of mysterious necromancy. fun stuff ensues.

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    05 Jun 2026