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  1. Public Bookmark 48

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    Grace is nervously, carefully learning to enjoy having Simon aboard the Hail Mary, he’s hopeful that Simon is starting to come out of his shell. He’s . . . Hopeful about a lot of things, things he probably shouldn’t be hopeful for.

    Or; Simon’s been carefully adjusting to his limited time on the Hail Mary, on account of this can only be his ‘7 minutes’ of brain activity before he dies.

    At least the angel sent to help him move on is as beautiful as they were said to be.

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    22 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 55

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    In a tiny village by a cold, dark sea, in a tiny hovel at the edge of town, there lived a man named Grace.
    In Eden, fear ruled above all else. So close to the roiling, black ocean lived a leviathan of legend—a god to the simple people who fished his waters. The council instated by the elders of old policed devotion to the Eel.
    And they had decided, in time for the blood moon, that Grace had blasphemed for long enough.

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    22 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 43

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    With the new arrival of a human on Erid comes a whole bunch of new questions. Ryland is keen on answering them. Simon thinks the scientist needs to sleep.

    Or, Simon is strong

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    21 Jun 2026

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    There were times after Rocky moved into the Hail Mary when Grace would be hunched over an experiment, struggling to make things work; struggling to find the solution that Tau Ceti held, then struggling to grow nitrogen-resistant Taumoeba faster. Sometimes he would sit staring at the farm-tanks, slouched in his chair with his hands dangling over his knees, and whisper to himself. “Please,” he would say. “Please, please, please.”

    “Who is Grace talking to?” Rocky had asked in the stilted way he’d been stuck with at the time.

    “No one,” Grace had shrugged. “Or anyone. Anyone who’ll listen.”

    Rocky does not understand humans. But now, he sits on the shore of an infant sea, a brand-new constructed world all around him just waiting for its single lonely occupant to take control of it, and wonders if human senselessness is worth a shot.

    “Please,” he whispers, running his claw through the water. “Please, please, please.”

    The sea does not respond.

    Or, what if your friend accidentally catches the attention of a god in hopes of saving you, and that god falls in love with you instead?

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    20 Jun 2026

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    "...emitting a radio frequency, I tuned into it expecting little more than feedback, maybe due to a magnetic inbalance-”

    “And??”

    Wordlessly, they flick a switch, and the noise is played loud enough for the entire room to hear it. 

    “Please,” a voice sobs, “Please, it hurts- I'm scared, I just- please, I just want to live. Why doesn't anyone else want that? Why can't I- I want to-” it breaks off into more sobbing and the room practically vibrates with tension. 

    “That-! That is the language spoken by Engineer Rocky's Grace! That is HUMAN language!”

    “Yes.”

    “There is a human down there?? That shouldn't be-”

    “But there is. What now?”
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    AT-5 pops up on the edges of the Eridian Solar System with no explanation. They find Simon under the ocean.

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    16 Jun 2026