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    “Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later.

    After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.”

    A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business.

    Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.

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    31 Aug 2026

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    "Well," Grace says, reading over the monitor with Mary's full report, "everything looks good. I'm as healthy as a horse. A healthy horse," he adds, getting ahead of Rocky's inevitable logical objection to the phrase.

    "Mm," Rocky hums, "no, Grace not as tall as horse. Hair is shorter, also."

    "Are those--" Grace plants his hands on his hips. "Are those the main differences you see between me and a horse?"

    (In which Grace has multiple crises, breaks his foot, gets his brain microwaved, learns to hate cherry tomatoes, and becomes a celebrity--not necessarily in that order)

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    28 Aug 2026

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    “Hey, bud,” I say softly. “I’m here, okay? I just want to help you.”

    Rocky’s vents rattle like a sigh. “I know.”

    “So what is it that you’re so upset to leave behind?”

    There’s another long, silent moment, stretching until I start to worry that I’ve finally done it: found the first-ever cultural or personal barrier between us that we can’t cross together. I’m long past the point of being able to pretend that Rocky doesn’t mean the world to me – more than the world, actually, literally. I don’t need to have all my memories back to know that the moment we were reunited after I turned back for him was the happiest I’ve ever been. So I just can’t stand the thought that he’s hurting in some part of himself I can’t reach. 

    Then Rocky says, “Am upset to leave bodies of crew,” and my heart stops.

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    Or: Grace and Rocky stumble together through an interplanetary anthropological exploration of funerals, grief, and meaning, trying to find a way to say goodbye to Rocky's crew.

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    cynosure, noun (cy·​no·​sure ˈsī-nə-ˌshu̇r)

    1. a fated partner, typically romantic
    2. the draw to one's fated partner
    3. [archaic] one that serves to direct or guide, from the northern constellation Ursa Minor

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    Ryland Grace doesn't believe in soulmates, but in a world where fate actually intervenes, that doesn't matter. He's on a collision course centuries in the making.

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    Stratt watches over Grace as he experiences his first night in a coma before the launch.

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    03 Aug 2026