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  1. Public Bookmark 87

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    Grace finally noticed something was wrong when the lack of any noise snapped him out of his reverie. He finally looked away from his laptop, eyes faintly burning, and confusedly observed the coffee shop. Everyone, baristas included, were staring at the television, faces pale and drawn, utterly silent and motionless.

    And on that sunny day Dr. Ryland Grace found refuge in a coffee shop to escape the heat, all but one week on the dot past his self-ejection from the world of academia via carbon-based insults, jobless and with all doors pointedly closed in his face, the appearance of the very first Kaiju was shaking the world at large out of all previously known logic and scientific rationale.

    It wouldn’t be the last.

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    Circumstances may be different, but a deep bond of friendship and love might save the day, nonetheless.

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    30 Sep 2026

  2. Rec 41

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    Her newly-promoted replacement science lead squares his shoulders and clears his throat. It’s a thick sound, one of tears being swallowed.

    “Da, let us do Dr. Grace proud as he does us proud out there in the stars,” he says, half to himself. Then Dimitri gets back to work.

    Stratt excuses herself to her next meeting. But instead of steering towards her office and the waiting Zoom call, she makes a pit stop in the ladies’ room and locks the door behind her.

    She bends over the sink, breathing slow and deliberate. It takes her longer than usual to regulate. The collar of her shirt is damp from how much cold water she has splashed on her face. She looks up at her reflection in the tiny, dingy mirror.

    Her eyes are hollow. Empty.

    “Get yourself together, woman,” she hisses at her reflection.

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    AKA: There are unforeseen consequences to launching your First Officer to space against his will, and they don’t come from the quarter you would expect. Faith is the only solace left to Eva Stratt; the only scrap of her own humanity that she hasn't yet sacrificed to the cause.

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    14 Sep 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    14 Sep 2026

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    The arrival at Erid is a momentous occasion. Rocky is excited and thrilled. Ryland is overwhelmed. But the reunion is happy, beautiful, amazing.

    Or that's what it should have been. Except Rocky gets hurt, Ryland is left to try and communicate with an alien planet, and everyone is scrambling to figure out how to do this. To Grace, this is incredible but also bittersweet - he got Rocky home safely with the taumoeba, now he just gets... to starve. To Erid, this is insane - how did Rocky show up in an alien spaceship with a child???

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    Ryland Grace is stuck trying to speak Eridian, immediately makes himself sound like a child, and Rocky's world and family scramble to help this strange pebble. Misunderstandings galore, alongside hurt/comfort and angst and fluff.

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    09 Sep 2026

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