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    In Eridian years, Grace is a pebble. This is not an issue, until it is.

    Until Rocky suddenly realized that the humans did not pebble-proof their spaceship.

    ...how do you stop a pebble with the brain of an adult human teacher and scientist from wreaking havoc on their own ship?

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    01 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 97

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    Serpentine: a mineral or rock consisting essentially of a hydrous magnesium silicate usually having a dull green color and often a mottled appearance.

    Grace learns about Eridian Predators the hard way

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Getting settled on a new planet has all kinds of ups and downs, Ryland Grace knows this. Eridian's are very different, not to mention simply their method of speech.

    Grace may have forgotten to mention that some forms of sound, sudden and sharp, are painful to humans. It never came up, and after nearly a year on Erid, it had sort of slipped his mind. Not to mention, being on a space craft for nearly five years must have brought an issue like this to light, but it seems that he and Rocky had just gotten lucky.

    The alternative, the pain of new sounds is discovered the hard way, with a bit too much blood as a result.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    the untold story of rocky & grace's trip back to erid. it does not go well.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Today is a good day. I want to keep it that way.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    “Grace, question?”

    I perk up at the sound of Rocky's voice. It's not uncommon after almost two years into our trip to Erid to ask random questions about me, or humans, or really earth in general. Especially after an hour or two on his computer.

    “Yes Rocky?”

    “Humans persistence predators, question? Humans hunters, question?”

    “Ah.”

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    or humans can seem terrifying to space rocks

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    13 Jun 2026

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    Grace is dying. He and Rocky have made it all the way to Erid, but getting an emaciated, malnourished, mentally fragile Ryland Grace down to a planet designed to kill him is not a simple feat. Rocky desperate to bring his friend home with him, but Grace himself might become the biggest obstacle to seeing that dream realized.

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    10 Jun 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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    06 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 93

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    The intruder enters the kitchen slowly, limbs held low to the ground. Their carapace tilts from side to side as they draw near, fixing their auricles on me.

    The xenosuit they have on looks cobbled together, almost experimental. It’s not see-through like my team’s suits are. It wasn’t designed with my light detectors in mind. Instead, it’s dark and opaque, and not at all helping to dispel the impression of a masked burglar in my home.

    I’ve never seen that body language in person before, but I understand it on an instinctual level. Eridians are the apex predators of their planet. It’s a hunting stance, and I am the prey.

    or: Grace experiences a home invasion on Erid.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    What if grace was just a 15 year old pebble shot into space. what if rocky had always wanted to be a dad. welcome to my story!

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    06 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 17

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    04 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 16

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    Rocky watches dubiously as the strange creature wanders around the ship. It jumps up onto a counter, sniffing at each glass and beaker as it goes past.

    “Grace supposed to be running experiment,” he reminds it cautiously. Hopefully none of the abandoned components are volatile.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    When Rocky wakes up after Adrian, he's relieved they're both alive, but immediately knows that something is off with Grace. He's having trouble breathing, sleeping a lot, and spiking fevers. As much as Grace wants to blame it on lung irritation from the ammonia in Rocky's atmosphere, Rocky knows he's downplaying it, and it's not going to work.
    However, before he can actually do anything about it, the ship's power goes out. Taumoeba have gotten into the fuel and eaten all the astrophage, leaving them with no choice but to steal from the beetles.
    Which are on the outside of the ship.
    Which means two EVAs and a lot of lab work for Grace, all while his condition declines from what's quickly turning into a serious health problem. All Rocky can do is make sure he has what he needs and try to take care of him as best he can from afar, hoping they can get to safety before Grace's health is too fragile to recover.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    After Rocky and Grace land on Erid, Rocky is finally able to reunite with Adrian (though he has a LOT of anxiety surrounding it). He leaves the science team to tend to Grace in his weakened state and unbeknownst to Rocky, they're not as accommodating as promised.

     

    I read the book so there's some cannon from there, but the chase scene in the movie is very compelling. I also really like how the bio-dome is set up in the movie too- so there's a little bit of both! Also I like to jump around POVs, and I mark the changes with lines like this: ------. Hope you enjoy :)

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    30 May 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 81

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    Having a panic attack is no fun. Getting stabbed through the stomach by a rogue pipe also isn't very fun, either, in Grace's opinion, and yet here he is. Pinned down, freaking out, unable to think or breathe with the past catching up.

    Through it all, though, Rocky won't leave his side.

    BadThingsHappenBingo Fill: Bloodstained Clothes

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    30 May 2026

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    There's a sound of movement from the the tunnels then Rocky-brilliant, amazing, best engineer on Erid, best friend in the entire universe-Rocky is barreling into the intruder with enough force to crater the ground where they land.

    (Someone breaks into Grace's dome. This goes about as well as you would expect it to.)

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    27 May 2026

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    No, please, don’t do it, I can’t do it, please.”

    Rocky knew exactly what was going on, and hated hated hated that it had to happen on what had supposed to have been a nice, calm, fun day for both Grace and the kids.


    Grace has a flashback. Luckily he has a wonderful family to help him through it.

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    26 May 2026

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    Something was standing above his towel.

    No… someone.

    They seemed to be observing the towel, claws tapping against the material with what he took as curiosity, pinching it between the appendage.

    Was it Rocky? It’d make sense, the Eridian would certainly have something harsh to say about him leaving his stuff laying around. He always had some mean quip to insult his shoddy human memory.

    He opened his mouth to defend himself before Rocky could say something snappy, when the figure then moved, stocky legs rising from beneath their carapace and lifting them to their full standing height.

    They were tall. Too tall.

    That wasn’t Rocky.

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    Grace receives an unexpected visitor one night in his home on Erid.

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    22 May 2026

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    Sending a middle-school teacher with epilepsy light-years into deep space without his medication was, in retrospect, a terrible idea.

    Luckily, Rocky is fantastic at detecting them and protecting Grace.

    Or, WLC server thought about the prompt: What if Rocky was like a seizure alert dog for Grace?

    Or or, part one of me putting chronic illness, ailments, and conditions onto Ryland Grace.

    BadThingsHappenBingo Fill: Needles

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    18 May 2026

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    Ryland Grace wakes up in a small room alone, where the walls are wrong, his body is wrong, and there's a rock spider like nothing he's ever seen looming over him. He has no memory of how a middle school science teacher could've possibly ended up on an alien planet trillions of kilometers away from the nearest fellow human being- and yet these aliens seem determined to take good care of him.

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    The drug Grace was given to induce amnesia before going on the Hail Mary has unpredictable long-term side effects.

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    16 May 2026

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