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    "He's tapping his fingers together again. I know what he's thinking. He's thinking what I am thinking. But if either of us is going to say it, it's gotta be him. 'If it came down to it, I would be completely fine with you performing an invasive surgery on me', is something that would take possibly three more near-death experiences and another coma to grant me the resolve to say aloud."

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    09 Aug 2026

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    “Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later.

    After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.”

    A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business.

    Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.

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    02 Aug 2026

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    It’s gonna be a long trip.

    When I finally found Rocky, stranded in the middle of nowhere, I thought I was going to die. I thought I was going to slowly starve to death. But when I banged on the Blip-A’s hull and suddenly heard Rocky's voice through the radio, it was the best moment of my life.

    But, you know…. I am still, actually, going to starve to death. I hate it when reality sets in.

     

    On the long trip to Erid, Rocky and Grace discover music together. But for Grace, the road gets harder and harder.

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    17 Jul 2026

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    “Have you thought about it?”

    It takes a moment for Essek’s brain to recalibrate from historical theories on Pre-Divergence transmutative equations to the question he’d been asked. “What?”

    “Where you are to go, after this.”

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    When faced with the choice of where his life is to lead him after Aeor, Essek goes to visit Jester.

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    15 May 2026

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    There is a momentary silence as they are all forced to acknowledge that the Mighty Nein – powerful, talented, utterly deranged – have been backed into a corner by forces far larger than any of them.

    “I mean…if all else fails”, Beau jokes weakly, “We’re still pirates. We could just…”

    “Bail?”

    “Ditch the war”, Nott chimes in, nodding sagely. “Bye, guys, it’s been great, we’re out of here – like that?”

    “Kind of, yeah”, Beau shrugs. “That’s what I was picturing.”
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    The Mighty Nein, in the aftermath of the battle in the Cathedral and King Dwendal's ultimatum.

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    06 Mar 2026