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    Ryland Grace wakes up in a small room alone, where the walls are wrong, his body is wrong, and there's a rock spider like nothing he's ever seen looming over him. He has no memory of how a middle school science teacher could've possibly ended up on an alien planet trillions of kilometers away from the nearest fellow human being- and yet these aliens seem determined to take good care of him.

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    The drug Grace was given to induce amnesia before going on the Hail Mary has unpredictable long-term side effects.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    Theresa Cabral is two weeks, three days, and ten hours from defending her PhD thesis in molecular biology when she gets a text from a kid she went to middle school with.

    Michael Whitman (11:06 pm):
    Did you see it?

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    13 Jul 2026

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    "I'm up! Ok I'm up-" a yawn broke through his words, Rocky chirping something in anticipation as he skittered over to the closest point in the tunnels to Grace. When the man was done blearily rubbing at his face and slapping himself awake (Rocky was perturbed to say the least when Grace explained some humans harm themselves to wake up or refocus on a task), he finished his statement, "What's up bud, did you need something?"

    {"Rocky heard Grace make purr sound like Earth cat. Why Grace not explain that human thing? Why Grace not do it before?"} The blonde took a second to stare at the Eridian with a gobsmacked look on his face before it dawned on him.

    "Rocky- do you mean I snore?" The Eridian tilted his carapace slightly, a quirk he'd apparently picked up from Grace.

    {"New word. Explain."}

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    Or a 5+1 in which Rocky conducts several sleep studies on his leaky space blob during moments during their mission.

    QUEERPLATONIC GRACE AND ROCKY. Can be read as romantic but I mainly wrote it as two really close bros bonding in space, so there's nothing inherently romantic featured beyond typical snuggles and sappy words :)
    EDIT (6-29-26): added tags (SEE NOTES)

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    09 Jul 2026

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    Due to a error with the sedative, Ryland Grace is not put into his medically induced coma early, he is instead sedated and wakes up in a blank room with no windows with guards at the only exit.
    To Eva Stratt and everyone else, his unplanned consciousness doesn't matter, the mission will continue as planned, with a few more bumps than they had originally planned for.
    To Ryland Grace, it meant everything. To him, he has three days to convince them not to send him into space, he had three days to tug at their heartstrings and reaffirm just how worthy he was to be kept alive.
    It, predictably, doesn't change a single thing.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    That’s it, then. You sort of never thought this moment would come, but it did. Vaugarde is saved. The King is defeated. Your journey is over.

    Right. Mirabelle will stay here, or maybe go off on a pilgrimage all on her own. Isabeau will go back to Jouvente to pursue his dream. Bonnie back to their sister. And Odile to Ka Bue.
    And you…well, you’ll return to traveling, of course. Just like before. That’s fine. It’s what you’ve always done. It won’t be any different than it was before.

    You’re just glad that this story had a happy ending.

    A moment of hesitation and a faint memory leads Siffrin to make a different wish at the Favor Tree. The party of saviors find their final quest goes much more smoothly than they might have anticipated.

    This is not a good thing.

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    25 Nov 2025