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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    the only thing ryland gentry was good at besides science was making good decisions, not making mistakes, and he prioritized that over everything else. maybe this mindset overtook his life enough for him to get to senior year without really learning how to make friends and he was now headed to college, alone, to most likely do the same thing, sure, but he liked being perfect. he had to be perfect to be worth something, right?

    well, someone has to be there to catch him when he slips, and it was always going to be his older brother courtland.

    AKA: colt convinces ryland to go to his first and only high school party over christmas break before they graduate. ryland, now drunk and left alone, is NOT having a good time, so he decides to call courtland to come pick him up. arguing via a nokia cell phone and emotional conversations about expectations and self worth ensue.

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    20 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    Grace knows the chances he’ll survive and live a happy, fulfilling life are so comically low it would be easier for him to win the lottery seven times in a row. But he still allows himself to hope he might be able to go home after this is over, after he figures out why Tau Ceti's star isn’t dying.

    If he doesn’t hope, it’s easy to panic, and that isn’t productive to the mission. Besides, there’s another thing that motivates him apart from Stratt’s faith and the knowledge Earth’s fate is in his hands. It’s a bit unexpected, so much so that the realization had made him laugh when it crossed his mind for the first time— it was so sudden and so correct it didn’t even feel like it had come out of his head:

    At least there are no spiders in space.

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    One severely arachnophobic Ryland Grace meets a tarantula made out of rocks.

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    20 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 35

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    Thank god I'm not alone. Thank god he's here. I've never really believed in god, but Rocky is here and I can't think of anyone else I can thank for that. Maybe Stratt.

    Grace's emotions are a boiling pot, constantly overflowing.

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    20 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 36

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    Sometimes Rocky wishes Adrian would slap him. Grab him by the shoulders, shake him and scream, “WHERE IS THE MATE WHO LEFT ME?”

    But they don’t. Adrian is trying. So Rocky is trying too.

    After returning to Erid, Rocky struggles to make his marriage work. Grace doesn't make that easy.

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    19 Aug 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 22

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    Grace always has a fun fact to share.

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    5 times Grace told Rocky a fun fact about the human body, and 1 time Rocky told Grace one.

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    17 Aug 2026