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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    His lips part, and I hear the fluid gather inside his mouth. I can see soft tissues, the shifting muscle of the tongue, hard echoes off those chips of bones he calls teeth. Everything is coated in a layer of thick, sticky liquid. I know I should be disgusted, but somehow, I’m not. Grace’s sheer helpless need fills me with nothing but affection.

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    After Grace's brush with starvation on the journey to Erid, Rocky realizes he no longer minds watching his best friend eat. In fact, he kind of really wants to get up close and personal while Grace eats as much as he possibly can.

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    09 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 66

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    As Grace prepares for the start of a new semester, he learns his newest class will include a student who needs a little extra help to succeed.

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    03 Sep 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 80

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    It was his decision to make this time, and he made peace with certain death he'd face after saving Rocky. But then Rocky began to speak of and plan for Grace's future - on Erid.
    Grace is convinced that his best friend can't possibly imagine how difficult it would be to keep a human alive on Erid. But he can. He can see all the ways in which everything will go spectacularly wrong, until the fears and anxieties become unbearable.
    But Rocky does what he does best - Rocky fix.

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    02 Sep 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 89

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    “Not — not understand,” Rocky continues, a little higher now, his body shuddering. “Try Vℓ times, all failure failure failure. Eridian mating sometimes fail, but not this much. This much unprecedented. Thought location, temperature, time of year problems in previous attempts — fixed all, Grace know Rocky and Adrian work to fix all, and still failure, still.”

    Grace fidgets with his hands, stretching each knuckle and palming the free edge of each nail, to keep from throwing himself onto Rocky and howling like an animal.

    (Because somewhere along the way, Rocky and Adrian's wish for kids had become Grace's own, too.)

    OR: Rocky and Adrian's eggs keep dying long before they hatch, and no one knows why. Grace — who definitely doesn't see himself as a parent to those hatchlings, how stupid and impossible would that be?! — has the normal reaction, which is inventing gene therapy from scratch to help the next egg survive.

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    02 Sep 2026

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    “I’m sure you know him from somewhere, Tony.” She’s leaning against the kitchen counter, studying the frame intensely, like the answer to Tony’s mild breakdown was hidden within in.

    “Clearly not!” He flails for emphasis, frustrated. He’s supposed to be a genius, so why can’t he figure this out? “This is a prank, right?”

    She scowls at him, face hardening with her lack of amusement. “Don’t be an idiot.” Pepper straightens, clearly wanting no more than to be done with this whole conversation. “Maybe it was one of those college interns.”

    He shakes his head fiercely. “No. This must be- shit, what are those called? Something effect... the effect of something...”

    A Mandela Effect, as his research would later reveal.

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    02 Sep 2026