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    I leaned forward and tapped the title of the folder as I slid it back to her.
    "From the Exodus. Manna was gathered daily rather than stockpiled," I said. "Corny religious project name? It's got your hands all over it."
    To my surprise, she actually laughed. She cocked her head to the side and gave me a slow, quizzical look.
    "Good catch."
    I shrugged. "My mother was Jewish."
    "Yeah, I know."
    She stared at me and I stared back. We both chose to ignore the few seconds of silence that followed.

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    For three hours, he’s at the beach, takes off his socks and hikes Ilyukhina’s dress up, and stands in the water. He left the cane on the shore; it hurts to let his frame bear the brunt of gravity unsupported. The reliable tide, just cool enough to chill him a little, laps at his shins.

    He closes his eyes and tries to forget about himself, the familiar ache in his joints and spine. Allows himself to imagine something else.

    A different truth, a hypothetical, a thought exercise.


    Rocky can't bear to lose Grace. But he can bear to watch Grace wither away from a sickness easily cured by Earth medicine even less.

    Grace has to make another choice.

    Or: After thirteen years on Erid, Grace leaves his true home for Earth. Eva Stratt lives to see him return. Earth takes note of the changes.

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    Fault tolerance/catastrophic functionality:
    a system's capability to handle faults without any degradation or downtime. [...] Failure tolerant systems mask errors and maintain failure-free operation in the presence of one or more faulty components. [Wikipedia]


    Eva Stratt knows Ryland Grace has a problem.

    But the end of the world doesn't stop for one man's problems, and she can't afford to lose her leading Astrophage expert to rehab.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    Grace tries copying the tones.

    Rocky hums. “Close. Skip first note.”

    “Why? You always include that.”

    “This means… of Rocky, possessive. Of the speaker.”

    “My.”

    “Correct. But only for names.”

    “So you’re calling me…?”

    Rocky repeats the word: “My Grace. Yes.”

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    20 Jul 2026

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    Anyway, there isn’t a therapist on Erid who could work on me without a seminar. And even after a curriculum, a thesis, and a defense, it’d still be impossible to explain why I feel so goshdarn weird about the wheelchair.

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