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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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    02 Apr 2026

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    “♫♪♩♪,” he starts. Sounds like a title, maybe? “Forgive me, but my companion is bad at Eridian and only understands a few word order ♪♩♫♫♪. For his sake, can we slightly simplify our speech, question?”
    “What?!” I hiss at him. The Eridian throng in front of us, including that leader guy, is tittering. “Rocky, you’re embarrassing me! You’re gonna make me look bad!”

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    A series exploring the biological, cultural, and linguistic differences between two members of a very unconventional (but good) social group on a little spaceship far from home.

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    03 Apr 2026

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    “You stopped leaking.”
    “I did. Humans are very responsive to physical reassurance. Even more than verbal, sometimes.” I take a very deep breath, until my lungs ache, then let it out. “I think I told you once that crying as a distress signal is mostly asking for reassurance. I don't think I would have said that the first response other humans have is usually giving them a hug.”
    “No, you didn't say that part.”

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    A series of short fics exploring Grace and Rocky's friendship, among other things. (Each chapter is its own story; I just wanted to have them all in one place.)

    Chapter 1: Rocky thinks humans are equally disgusting and cute. Somehow, through it all, Grace reminds him of home.
    Chapter 2: Rocky can pick Grace up easily, and Rocky thinks it is very funny. Rocky and Grace tease each other.
    Chapter 3: Eridians bring Grace their babies for him to see, and Grace learns about Eridian culture/religion. Grace is also bad at taking compliments.
    Chapter 4: Rocky makes Grace celebration jewelry. Later, Grace gets a similar gift from Adrian.
    Chapter 5: Grace and Rocky tease each other, and Rocky is introduced to the idea of throwing things at your friends. He decides that humans are odd, but maybe aren't all that bad.
    Chapter 6: Grace tries to convince Rocky to swim, but Eridians don’t typically like deep water because they are heavy and will sink/drown. Grace learns about some Eridian mythology.
    Chapter 7: Grace talks about the lack of support teachers have on Earth. Rocky is confused by this.

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    12 Apr 2026

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    “Oh,” I sigh, rubbing still-shaking hands across my stubbly face because oh, that was so close. Too close. We were supposed to be done with the theatrics, with the life-and-death bullhonkey.

    What the heck, universe? Not cool.

    I don’t want to move for a bit. The siren song of dissociation calls my name, and honestly, I’m so, so chill with just sitting here for a second and decompressing and trying to remember all the breathing techniques I learned for my students, butー

    But the lights are still flashing red, flashing with urgency and Mary is saying something and I have to drag my mind, kicking and screaming, back to focusー

    “-ected. Toxic gas in Laboratory detected. Toxic gas in Laboratory-” Mary drones, and once it clicks into place the cold sweat is backー

    Oh god noー

    The banging noise. The gas leak. The lab.

    Rocky.

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    19 Apr 2026

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    The rough texture stands out against the healthy flesh, outside and inside, his lungs crinkling wrong wrong wrong with more of those terrible terrible terrible noises, because his atmosphere is oxidizing to me but mine is poison to him, and my stupid stupid stupid perfect perfect perfect human did exactly what he was supposed to and shouldn’t have; he fulfilled his duty to keep me safe in my sleep, like a proper Eridian, but now he’s bad bad badー

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    Rocky tries his best to reassure Grace, they have a slight misunderstanding, and a new Eridian word is coined.

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