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    Two-body problem: A problem of classical mechanics to calculate and predict the motion of two massive bodies that are orbiting each other in space.

    “Adrian, just a small warning: the Rocky that came back might not be the Rocky you know. It’s classified, but my friend is one of the comms specialist on the space elevator. They told me things. He acts… weird. He doesn’t sleep, and neglects the medical and psychological exams. I’m not sure he’s here, if you know what I mean."
    “Where is he, then?” Adrian’s musical notes come out discordant.
    “Wherever his human companion is stuck. If the alien dies, Rocky might never come down from the stars.”

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    "Olesya," she says. "Ilyukhina. I'm the engineer here, and he is pilot and commander." She hooks her thumb over at Yao as she says it.

    "You," she continues, gesturing forwards with both hands, "are our scientist. I hope you remember science?"

    "Um." Do I remember science? I think so.

     

    Or: The Hail Mary, with two fewer funerals.

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  3. Public Bookmark 75

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    "I-" his words turn into a jumbled mess and I feel my claws clench. It's more than a little frustrating the way Grace keeps using new vocabulary without offering a translation for it. It probably has to do with grammar structure, but we've barely established +λ++ words.

    He can handle some grammatical sacrifices for the sake of ease, can't he? I definitely have.

    Grace presses one of his dull claws to his carapace. "-sleep now. I come back in +∀ +λ++ seconds."

    He takes another (clumsy) step backward and this time I do push my carapace into the barrier. He can't leave, the tunnel is too long for me to hear him whenever he's back on his spaceship. He's going to vanish and take that steady percussion beat within his chest with him. What if something happens to him while he's on his ship and he never returns? I need need need him.

    Erid needs needs needs him.

    "I observe."

    Grace is so caught up with making himself look trustworthy that he forgets aliens might be able to lie just as well as he can.

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    Rocky lies about Eridian culture. What's Grace gonna do? Call an alien a liar?

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    It should have been a perfectly safe stunt, they'd done it four times already, but something had gone wrong. So wrong, and now Jody was sitting in a hospital waiting room, waiting for an update, for some evidence that Colt was going to be ok. Waiting for Colt's twin to answer her phone calls, he always came to check in on his brother if a stunt went wrong, always.

    So why wasn't he answering...

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    Eridian kids are entertained and fascinated by how lightly humans sleep.

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