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    “Did you guys ever have kids- or hatchlings I guess?”
    Rocky goes silent. Not simply in terms of speech. Eridians make noise almost constantly, like the humming of an old CRT. When he goes silent like that...
    “We tried.”

     

    Rocky and Adrian had a failed clutch that left lasting scars on them both. After all of this time, is it time to try again? Grace sure thinks so.

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    “Rock,” I say. “What's going on, man? You’ve been jittery for weeks. Are you nervous?”

    “Not nervous,” he answers, stomping his foot.

    “Well then, what is it? You’re driving me insane.”

    “You insane,” Rocky huffs. “You leak and tap-tap-tap and play with stupid ball. Can’t even catch it. Rocky not fucking like ball. Warning.”

    I bang my head against his ball. “I regret ever teaching you those words.”

    “Rocky very insistent,” he says smugly.

     

    Or: Grace learns that Rocky's a little freak

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    “Every year,” he said.

    Rocky tilted. “Question?”

    “We should do this every year,” Grace said. “All three of us.”

    Rocky made the sound that meant, obviously, this was always the plan—Grace is slow sometimes, but gets there eventually.

    Adrian made the sound Grace had learned, over careful months of listening, meant yes.

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    “Um, hello.” Rocky lifts a hand slowly. The rock spider chitters and attempts to lift one back. But it’s tangled in wire, and the force that the alien uses to tug it free sends his body reeling backwards and thumping against the side of the tunnel. Rocky tries to keep a straight face.

    “I’ll call you Grace,” he says. “Clearly you have plenty of it.”

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    Rocky wakes up in the Tau Ceti system, with his commander and science specialist dead. How's he supposed to save Earth?

    Befriend the alien scientist he runs into, of course.

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    "Will you two stay, please?" Grace felt his eyes slipping shut, but he needed to know, needed their presence besides him.

    "Until you tell us to leave, we will stay, Doctor Grace." Yáo, the captain that he was, stated solemnly

    "You have and never will be alone, Grace." And there was Ilyukhina’s bell-like singsong, following him to his sleep.

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