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    "Hey...can I ask you something kind of weird?"

    "Shoot," Rocky says, his voice sounding amused. "But not actually shoot."

    Grace wants to laugh at the joke (he's been getting better at joking and sarcasm) but instead he swallows, his fingers tracing idle patterns on the blanket. The ache from earlier at the classroom, the beach, the constant invisible wall feels closer tonight.

    "What does it feel like... to touch you?" he asks. "I mean, if we could. Your carapace. Your claws. What would it feel like to me?"

    Rocky is quiet for a long beat. When he sings again, his melody is thoughtful and gentle.

    "Hard. Rocky, like name. Like...strong stone that is alive. My claws are sharp but careful. My body pulses a little when I am happy. Like singing Grace can feel instead of hear." He pauses, then adds with a soft, almost shy trill, "What does human skin feel like, question? To me, I wonder."

    He imagines it.

    In his mind, the xenonite shell vanishes.

    Or: Grace is touch starved and Rocky wants to make it better

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    24 Apr 2026

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    In Eridian culture, forcing someone into a state of sleep is one of the worst crimes someone can commit.

    Rocky discovers what happened to Grace.

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    22 Apr 2026

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    A beautiful day in the life of Ryland Grace on Erid.

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    22 Apr 2026

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    "Grace has new human, question? What is name, question?"

    Smiling brightly, Grace gestures to me. "Rocky, meet Olesya Ilyukhina, she's an engineer as well."

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    Ilyukhina and Yáo survive the trip.

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    21 Apr 2026

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