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    It’s nearly forty years on the dot since the launch of the Hail Mary that a transmission is received on its retired frequency. The world has been through hell and is on unsteady feet again, the Saving Grace treaty that ended World War Three and ushered in a new age is thirteen years old, and people are beginning to trust in hope.

    And then, on one fine spring morning, the Deep Space Network detects a blip near the Kuiper belt. Two days later, the transmission arrives.

    “My name is Astra Grace. I am the daughter of Ryland Grace and Olesya Ilyukhina. I come in peace with a small Eridian congregation to bury my parents on their home world. We are not armed. We come in peace.”

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    A reinterpretation of When The Stars Returned, a fic I started and never finished, where Olesya Ilyukhina survives the coma and she and Ryland make a space baby. PHM has me by the throat.

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    20 May 2026

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    Ryland Grace went into a coma 10 days before the Hail Mary launched, and his crew were put into their own comas. Turns out there's a ten-day difference in wake-up time, too; and, unfortunately for Ilyukhina and Yao, ten days is enough time to make first contact.

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    19 May 2026

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    "I-" his words turn into a jumbled mess and I feel my claws clench. It's more than a little frustrating the way Grace keeps using new vocabulary without offering a translation for it. It probably has to do with grammar structure, but we've barely established +λ++ words.

    He can handle some grammatical sacrifices for the sake of ease, can't he? I definitely have.

    Grace presses one of his dull claws to his carapace. "-sleep now. I come back in +∀ +λ++ seconds."

    He takes another (clumsy) step backward and this time I do push my carapace into the barrier. He can't leave, the tunnel is too long for me to hear him whenever he's back on his spaceship. He's going to vanish and take that steady percussion beat within his chest with him. What if something happens to him while he's on his ship and he never returns? I need need need him.

    Erid needs needs needs him.

    "I observe."

    Grace is so caught up with making himself look trustworthy that he forgets aliens might be able to lie just as well as he can.

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    Rocky lies about Eridian culture. What's Grace gonna do? Call an alien a liar?

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    19 May 2026

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    “What do you think about your statue?”

    My finger freezes on the careful swoop of the “g.” “What, question?” Okay, maybe it’s a little childish to add the “question” bit, but it’s the only way I can think of conveying emphasis right now.

    It definitely gets the kids’ attention. “You haven’t seen your statue?”

    I have a statue? I glance around the room. Nobody speaks up.

    Oh god. I have a statue. Like an actual statue that apparently everyone’s seen except me.

    And as if it couldn’t get any worse, “It’s in the middle of the cluster. In the plaza.”

    Grace learns that everyone on Erid sees him as a hero. Thankfully, Rocky's there to remind Grace who he really is. Human.

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    19 May 2026

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    "Grace stay with Rocky forever, question?"

    Uh—well, not really, I want to say, maybe my forever. Like a family pet—here for a portion of Rocky's life and gone in the next. Except there's no human humane society for Rocky to get a new me from. Not unless the science Eridians can make an interstellar highway to Earth. That'd be neat.

    But that's if there even is an Earth by then. For all I know George and Ringo ran out of fuel prematurely and are suspended in the middle of space, two ugly alien objects that nobody will know hold what could have saved an entire planet from another ice age.

    That'd suck. Both for humanity and Rocky. Then I'd really be irreplaceable.

    Grace forgets to tell Rocky about the average human lifespan. It comes up again on their flight to Erid.

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    19 May 2026

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    8 months after Grace and Rocky arrive on Erid, Adrian and Grace have an important talk. Without Rocky.

    That’s on purpose.

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    19 May 2026

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    Petulantly, Rocky says, “Grace sound stupid. Like child.”

    “I’m just talking how you talk, buddy.”

    “Yes. This is because I talk like child, to speak to stupid human.”

    “Well, you don’t have to do that,” I say without thinking.

    “♪♫♩as this♪ when, underst♪♪♫d ♪me, question?” Rocky says.

    “What?”

    “Can♪♪♫will understa♫d it ♫think talks♫♪ as this♪ Eridian you♩♫, question?”

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    18 May 2026

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    I read it again, my pointer drifting over the hyperlink. It was the same as the first time I’d read it; I didn’t know what I’d expected.

    14 Historical Figures Who Were Probably Autistic (You Won’t Believe Number Twelve)

    I rubbed my eyes and laughed again, this time a little lighter. Yeah, no way.

    Or: Grace returns to Earth with an Eridian envoy, gets sucked into an internet rabbit hole, and discovers that he's become one of those scientists who everyone sort of just accepts was probably autistic.

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    18 May 2026

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    Turns out the one universal constant is PTA moms demanding parent-teacher conferences.

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    18 May 2026

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    Rocky spends several years talking exclusively with an atonal human. This has some significant effects on his speech patterns.

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    18 May 2026

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    It's not jealousy. Adrian is adamant about that. They are actually insisting that it’s not any emotion at all. Not even dislike. They are simply completely uninterested in anything that concerns “the human”. 

    Rocky believes them. Adrian has always been the level-headed one out of the two of them. They are too logical to be jealous. They acknowledge that Grace and Rocky have a special bond after everything they went through together and also understand that none of that will ever pose a threat to their relationship. 

    Neither are they heartless or ungrateful. They know that Grace is the only reason that Rocky is back at all, the only reason their star has stopped dying. Adrian has told Rocky again and again that they are grateful and happy and wish the alien no ill will. They even helped with the construction of the biodome.

    And yet they have no desire to get to know Grace. 

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    You know those videos where the dad is like "You may keep the cat but I will have nothing to do with it" and a few days later they are smothering the kitty with cuddles and love?

    Adrian never stood a chance.

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    18 May 2026

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    Ryland Grace finishes off his video recordings with a special message for Eva Stratt.

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    18 May 2026

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    "You were the correct choice," Stratt said to the stars, and her jaw tightened, a brief, almost imperceptible shift, before she drew in another breath, "the only choice."

    The words were not cathartic. They did not change anything.

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    18 May 2026

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    Learn Eridian with this Eridlingo language course! 🪐

    (a semi-interactive Duolingo-inspired Eridian "course" made with HTML and CSS elements)

    Latest Minor Update: 05/14/26 - Added Introductions for Verbs, Adjectives, Pronouns, and Prepositions Lessons

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    18 May 2026

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    "So. I somehow got shot into space, lost my memory, everyone else died, and this is what's going to haunt me?"

    Grace gestured wildly with the sticker.

    "My AO3 stats?!"

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    18 May 2026

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    The Eridians have finally gotten the water feature in Ryland's personal zoo enclosure just right (even if Rocky would like him to stop calling his dome that).

    Rocky refuses to believe that humans naturally float. There is no way Ryland's entire species regularly goes into deep water for fun.

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    17 May 2026

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    Obsidian brings Loona's lunch for her and it ends in a kissing fest.

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    16 May 2026

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    Dimitri doesn't know yet what he got into, but he'll need to go from there.

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    16 May 2026

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    Today's the day! The feisty feline woman you've been flirting with online has finally invited you over during the day to... meet in person.

    Only it turns out that you've been messaging her daughter! Who is angsty, bitter about her parents splitting up, and very turned on by those pics you sent when asked.

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    16 May 2026

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    A game of selfie chicken with your beastblood bestie goes wildly off the rails. And leaves one hell of a mess.

    At the time i originally wrote this one of the groups i participated with were going back and forth on furry anatomy and it felt fun to play with.

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    16 May 2026

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