irisandromeda



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    “Grace?” asks Rocky, impatience laced with concern.

    “It’s a—” I mumble, my mouth loose with shock around the words. I hold onto the wall to stop myself from spinning, unable to tear my eyes away as the thing we’ve been calling a box shifts irrevocably into something else, because inside it is something eerily familiar. It’s hard to tell the gender or other features, harder still to tell if they’re even alive, but—

    “What, question?” Rocky asks through the radio, and I can’t bring myself to turn around to face him. My breath is thin in my lungs, my chest stinging sharply with dread.

    “It’s—” I say again, fumbling blindly for the door of the airlock. “Rocky, I think that’s a person.”

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    Or: While running on autopilot on the way to Erid, Mary detects something that’s not stardust and nebulae. Getting into a spacesuit and retrieving it from outside the ship seems like a great idea, right up until the point where it doesn’t.

    Somehow, pulling a human from a box some sixteen-ish light years from Earth is even weirder than running into aliens.

    But let it not be said that Ryland Grace is not adaptable.

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    27 Sep 2026

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    When Grace gets seemingly teleported by means unknown into the SM-13 right as it was nearing The Light, both Simon and Grace have no idea what is happening. Grace knows he was supposed to be in his house on Erid, Simon knows this new guy cannot possibly be a hallucination, and Ava, upon hearing Grace ramble about theories for how he got there, knows that new guy is Smart. Could-Secure-Our-Survival Smart.
    She orders Simon to bring Grace back to the surface, and thus begins Grace's ordeal in a starless universe.

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    15 Sep 2026

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    “Rocky, I’m here, okay? Come back to me, pal, please.”

    Of course I will, I think, drawn to that voice, that strange, wobbling voice, which I care about without knowing exactly why, and I should – it makes me angry, not knowing – I should know –

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    “I don’t understand what the big deal is. He likes penguins, I bought him a penguin. He loves his children, I quite thoughtfully included them in a gift to help him process his trauma.”

    “I think you need to run these things by me, next time.”

    “Well, there won’t be a next time.” She crosses her arms defiantly. “I was going to buy Carl a fake gun that squirts water.”

    “After he got shot?! Protecting you?!”

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    Dr. Ryland Grace would prefer it if Director Eva Stratt stopped accidentally traumatizing her employees and just did it on purpose; Dr. François Leclerc would prefer to be anywhere else on the planet; and Carl was really looking forward to that gun.

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    04 Sep 2026

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    "I'd wave my hand, reveal the stars" (which I recommend reading first), and further fics set in that universe!

    Current contents of the series:
    1 - the original goods
    2 - selected scenes from Stratt's POV

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    29 Aug 2026