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    Sam is shrunk thanks to an unfortunate run-in with magic powder. Bunker shenanigans ensue.

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  1. Public Bookmark 40

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    It's Rocky's sixth day in a row of staying at my house, and he's finally sleeping.

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    Grace had joked, occasionally, that they were a liquid and I was a solid, two completely different states of matter; it was a joke because it was an exaggeration, an overstatement. In reality, Grace had bones and teeth, and I had blood and steam, but we both enjoyed the pretense that we were more different than we were. It reminded us that our new friendship was something rare, something strange and special. Grace called themself a blob and called me a hunk of granite (a great insult that I was saving to use again on Erid), or they called themself a water balloon and called me a little mountain, or themself a puddle and me a pile of rocks: and they tilted at me, the human mouth tilt they called a smile, and that tilt always made me think again, lovingly, about the enormous odds against us ever having met.

    Stone and water, water and stone. That comparison, even as a joke, never failed to ring a bell deep inside of me. Because I would think about erosion, about the long slow beat of water against rock, and I would think about how the rock was always, in the end, consumed.

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    02 Sep 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 77

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    Thank god I'm not alone. Thank god he's here. I've never really believed in god, but Rocky is here and I can't think of anyone else I can thank for that. Maybe Stratt.

    Grace's emotions are a boiling pot, constantly overflowing.

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    21 Aug 2026

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    "You appear to be experiencing a migraine."

    Great. Hypothesis proven. Still sucks.

    “Probable cause is recently-diagnosed concussion,” Mary continues. “The relative length of your recovery window may be indicative of post-concussion syndrome.”

    Huh.

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    Grace (and Rocky) discover the consequences of head injuries.

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    12 Aug 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 25

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    After four years alone together in space, Grace and Rocky are finally learning how to enjoy being together without being in survival mode.
    Then Grace learns that Eridian houses have soundproof rooms for things best kept private.
    It turns out privacy means very different things to a human and an Eridian. So does being together.

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    "What? What is quiet room?"
    "Room where nobody hears. Eridians have in houses."
    "And what do you do there?"
    "Eat."
    "Only eat?"
    For several seconds, Rocky tapped his fingers on the floor.
    "No."
    "That was a very long answer for such a short word."
    "Question was complicated". Rocky tapped his fingers against the floor again. "Why Grace asks so many questions, question?"

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    11 Aug 2026