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  1. Public Bookmark 29

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    Rocky has hardly left Grace's medical room since arriving on Erid. Rocky needs to watch Grace sleep to know Grace is okay, even if that means putting off his own needs. Adrian figures if Rocky is not going to sleep, then they can at least talk.

    Or Adrian tries to lighten Rocky's mood by teasing him about the juicy rumor that Grace's scar is a matemark gone wrong

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    23 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 94

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    Ryland Grace cares deeply for Rocky and would never do anything on purpose to upset him or his mate of 150+ years, Adrian. Regardless, when Rocky travels and leaves him alone with Adrian.. they start to really upset him.

    Seriously, what is with the tapping?!

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    07 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 45

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    24 Jun 2026

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    “Sorry, bud. It’s going to be a hm… a bit of a pickle to keep me alive.” Grace chuckles.

    “Eridians build whatever Grace needs." Rocky chirps. ”Food that taste good and other stupid needs. Grace no worry. Stay alive and happy, Rocky make sure.”

    Grace nods, but that familiar fear is creeping up on him. The one that visits him when his head hits the pillow, that makes him feel like he's just stalling the inevitable. It's silly.

    All he has to do is not starve on the way to Erid. Then he'll be the only human on the planet. For the rest of his life. Which is not scary at all.

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    14 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 45

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    10 Jun 2026

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    A Project Hail Mary AU in which Grace (for Plot Reasons) develops the ability to shift between his human body and an Eridian form at will a couple of weeks after the Adrian Incident.

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    25 May 2026

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    Doctor Ryland Grace comes to the startling recollection that he is a fox shifter five months into the journey to Erid. The extremely panicked reaction of his best friend comes with it.

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    08 May 2026

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    Ryland Grace wakes up, goes to work, feels the rain on his face, teaches his students, cries over the galaxy, and dreams about a rock.

    Wait.

    What's that last one all about?

    There is a feeling in the back of his head like he's forgetting something. Is he forgetting something?

    Is he forgetting something again?

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    03 May 2026

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    Grace gets a migraine. Rocky, understandably, freaks out and then tries to fix.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    "♩ ♩ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫! [Mean very important! Not many!]"

    Grace racks his brain for a moment, then offers, "Precious?"

    "[Yes! Teachers precious! Grace precious!]"

    On Erid, teachers are the protected, prized few. Rocky learns that Grace was a teacher, and they have a discussion. (Can it be counted as one if dissonant notes are shrieked at the revelation for the majority of it?)

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    29 Apr 2026

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    29 Apr 2026

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    Or, five times Ryland Grace desperately tried to cling to family (even when they all but threw him away), and one time family grabbed him and refused to let go.
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    AKA, someone’s going to have to hold Rocky back from fighting the entirety of the human race for how sad they made Grace.

    That someone will not be Adrian.

    Adrian wants a gun, statement.

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    28 Apr 2026

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    It had been a long and difficult 27 years since the Hail Mary had launched. Not as terrible as it could have been, but not easy. Humanity had survived and adapted, as it always did. There had been terrible wars. There had been incredible acts of kindness. There had been massive scientific breakthroughs. And now, there were two distant blips of Petrova-light, picked up by the Deep Space Network, hurtling home. Two probes, braking hard as they hurtled toward Earth holding the secrets to its salvation. They were late, or at least, not very early, but they were here.

    Grace may have made his peace with dying to save Rocky, but Rocky insists they return to Earth.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    Grace thought choosing Rocky over home was the easiest decision he ever made.

    Coming back to Earth is harder.

    As old memories resurface and the people around them begin to question the bond that kept them alive, Grace and Rocky find themselves fighting for something neither of them has ever had before: a future.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    ‘Hey Rocky,’ I slur. ‘You make these stars for me, buddy?’

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    25 Apr 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 41

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    The journey to Erid will take approximately three years in Earth time. Rocky is determined to get both Grace and himself there, safe and sound. No matter what.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    “Are you going to tell me what I did wrong, or are you just going to give me the silent treatment for the next four years?” 

    “Human treatment to induce silence?” Rocky perks up. “Good plan. You teach. I administer.”

    (or: the long, bumpy road to the truth) 

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    24 Apr 2026

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    The Hail Mary has sent off its Beetles and Eva Stratt is the first to dissect them for the data within. If anything, she’s simply glad that Ryland Grace, as odd as he may seem at first glance, is thorough. His logs, both visual and written, go over everything in pretty good detail.

    She’s also come to learn that he has a pretty bad habit of leaving the camera on when it isn’t meant to be.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    “What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.

    “Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”

    “Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”

    In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    “Always think,” Rocky shifted his ball closer, bumping into Grace’s shoulder. Grace bumped it back, lips quirking up. “Think, think, think. Human brain never shut off. What Grace think about, question?”

    Grace went quiet for a moment and looked away. “Uh, my… ‘mate.’ Back on Earth. I remember I had one.”

    A series of happy little squeaks and chirps erupted from Rocky, his claws waving in frantic little jazz hands. He must have been excited to realize Grace had someone waiting for him back at home. Grace still didn't have the heart to tell him the truth, and likely never would. He shakes the thought away and focuses, eyes half-lidded and flickering back toward Rocky. The display pulled a genuine smile from Grace, though he wasn’t sure there was anything happy about the man back on Earth who grabbed him like a dog.
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    Alternatively, Grace has a flashback and subsequent revelations about himself and the person he was dating back on Earth. It affects him more than he thought it would.

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    50,442

    20 Apr 2026

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