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  1. Rec 38

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    Rocky hums appreciatively, holding me tight. “Eridian language very information-dense. Especially for cursing. Grace could not handle.”

    “I could – hey, I'm a grown man!”

    “Once I hear Grace walk into lab table, fracture smallest toe,” Rocky says flatly. “Even then worst thing Grace say is dog gone it. My Grace crazy. No one on ship to stop you from say fuck, statement!”

    I was already blushing from hearing my Grace. I only got redder from hearing the Eridian word I translated as fuck, whose notes Rocky has made me very, very familiar with over the past weeks. Hey, they say immersion is the best way to learn a language.

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  2. Rec 58

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    “Genital organ swelling…is because of sleep hallucination, question?” Rocky says, sounding baffled.

    “Pretty much. Human bodies are weird.”

    “Weird weird weird,” Rocky mutters, rolling back out of my arms. “Glad Grace okay.”

    I nod, not feeling okay in the slightest. “Totally okay. I mean, how could I not be? I’ve got a spaceship, all the Taumoeba I can eat, and you. What else could I need?”

    Last night's dream isn’t fading like my dreams usually do after I wake up. I’m not sure I even want it to. I can’t stop hearing the sounds my brain imagined Rocky would make as I sank my fingers knuckle-deep inside of him, as he praised me for making him feel so good–

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    02 Jul 2026

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    That is how it starts. 

    My pebbles are all good kids and a tight knit group. There are rarely fights or tensions and I can honestly say that they are all friends.

    But Sam, showing all of them up with a gift that made Teacher Grace smile softly with tears in his eyes? 

    That means war.

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    A lucky find leads to lots of gifts for Teacher Grace from his precious pebbles

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Two days after their first contact—and more importantly, their first words—Grace sets up his thinking machine to speak.

    Rocky does not need the assistance of a machine for Grace’s language. It is ugly and harsh to listen to, but it’s relatively simple to learn. That, and, well—Rocky was alone for a very, very long time before he met Grace. He maybe hangs on to each word a little more than strictly necessary. Grace only needs to tell him each word once for Rocky to know it forever.

    Grace, though…

    Well, he’s lucky Rocky is patient. Let’s leave it at that.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    “Grace promise to be very calm about many things immediately,” Rocky said, his voice low and serious. “Grace promise now.”

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