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  1. Public Bookmark 46

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    Ryland Grace lives a good life on Erid, dies, wakes up in his own coffin, and has to figure out how to be alive well enough to not be split open like an egg by an enraged Rocky and Adrian

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    08 Aug 2026

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    Shen Jiu hasn’t slept in three months.

    The Warm Red Pavilion has always been the one place that doesn’t ask questions, where he can close his eyes and let someone else keep watch for a while. When the person who used to sit with him is suddenly gone, Shen Jiu accepts a substitute without thinking too hard about what that might mean.

    What begins as a practical solution turns into something quietly destabilizing. Shen Jiu finds himself resting in a way he never has before, and in a world that insists on misunderstanding care as indulgence, that kind of relief is dangerous.

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    07 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 41

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    “Laika awake,” Rocky observes, in what Laika takes to be a quietly surprised tone of soft musical notes. Translating has been an obstacle she and Grace have found surprisingly difficult. Even if two humans didn’t speak the same language, their daemons could communicate a certain level of meaning and emotional responses without their humans having to get involved. Impossible, when the daemon of an alien was either absent or - as Laika deeply suspected - simply invisible.’

    Grace wakes up from his coma to find his daemon changed, his crew dead, and no memory of how any of this happened. And now, there’s an alien here too.

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    28 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 64

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    "Just to be absolutely clear," Grace says, bowling over whatever smug bullshit was about to come out of Ortiz's mouth, "I'm not going to be the other woman, and I'm not looking to sleep my way to tenure."

    He's quite possibly still too drunk for this. Or maybe he's not drunk enough.

    "I'm a grown man with a doctorate and I can make my own decisions," he tells Ortiz. "So, if you think I'm even considering it because I'm some—some sugar baby or—or you're looking for an easy lay because you're conveniently in another country, then you can take your napkin and room number shove them right up your ass."

    It's not the most persuasive as far as warnings go. Grace stutters his way through it and he's moving his hands too much, but Ortiz at the very least doesn't try to interrupt him this time. He is smirking, however, the lift of it caught in the rim of his glass he takes a sip of his drink, eyes never leaving Grace's.

    "Is that what you've been thinking about all these hours?" Ortiz asks him, conversational, like they're discussing bike lanes and Copenhagen's public transit system. "My ass?"

    A week at the UNESCO conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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    17 Jul 2026

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    The man had a thick crop of greying black hair, and his arms were covered in scars, along with a few blotches of turquoise and green, like watercolour tattoos. The scars differed in texture – some were deeply carved creases in the skin, others were raised like keloids, all in deliberate patterns and shapes.
    I recognised those patterns, those shapes. The family crest – one half on each forearm. The school and group markings. His rank. His mate-circles. His rulers and measuring implements, all carved into his body, all instantly recognisable.

    Oh god.

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    A freak accident puts Rocky, temporarily, into a human body. Whilst he and Grace wait for the reversal, they discover a lot about each other, and the nature of their relationship. Eventual smut, happy ending to come.

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    14 Jul 2026