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    "You…" Rocky's voice is uncharacteristically hesitant. It honestly throws me off. "You not like other Rocky's Grace."

    I flick my eyes to him. "What?"

    "I say, you not like other Rocky's Grace."

    "No, I heard you," I go back to playing solitaire in want of something better to do, but I can barely focus on the screen. "Why do you say that?"

    "…Other Rocky show Rocky earth media," he starts, and alright, I'm already worried.

    OR: So, you meet alternate versions of yourself. Big deal. At least they aren't having nightmares in the same room as you, or anything.

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    28 Aug 2026

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    Colt Seavers spent most of his life staring at the ground as he plummeted toward it.
    Then one day, his attention was captured by the stars.
    Not for a fun, curious, or fantastical reason. No, his reasoning was shitty, life-altering, and painful.

    or;

    It’s been twenty-seven years since Ryland Grace was sent on a suicide mission lightyears away from home.

    His twin brother, Colt Seavers, looks back on their time together and their time apart, while waiting to receive a crucial update - was the mission successful?

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    27 Aug 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    13 Aug 2026

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    Eva Stratt has never been a woman who hesitates.

    She’s made countless decisions after decisions throughout her life, often regardless of the consequences that may result. She’s not an idiot. She’s well aware that there will be consequences, and she’s equally sure that the consequences will be of little concern. The end justifies the means — her actions will be judged, but at least they will have happened.

    But here, alone in a Russian conference room, for once in her life Eva Stratt does not know what to do.

    OR; The beetles make it home.

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    13 Aug 2026

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    Grace is touch starved.

    Rocky can fix.

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    13 Aug 2026