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    Ryland Grace has a system. Not necessarily a good system by any means, and definitely not one that any sane person would advocate for, but it was safe, and it was–-for lack of a better word–-a system.

    Enter you, and suddenly... he doesn't know if that system works anymore.

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    11 Jul 2026

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    You mention, offhand, that you’ve never had an orgasm. He’s never let a solvable problem go in his life.

    He proposes an experiment. Strictly platonic. Variables controlled.

    You say yes because he’s the only person who’s ever asked you what you wants in a voice that doesn’t expect an answer.

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    03 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 39

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    He’s loud, your listening, and neither of you are as subtle as you think you are.

    The walls in your building are thin enough to double as radio. You know Ryland’s grading schedule, his cooking disasters, and exactly how many times a man can sneeze before he sustains structural damage. You are cold to him in the lift and warm to him in the dark, and you’ve been getting away with it for weeks.

    Then he says your name through the wall like he means it, and you stop getting away with anything.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    It's the middle of the simulated night on the Hail Mary, one where she finds herself unable to sleep for the millionth time since she's been sent off into space.

    She doesn't know what to do about it, but a tired and embarrassed Grace has a suggestion that she's more than willing to try.

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    24 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 6

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    Dr. Ryland Grace was standing at the front of the room, his hair a mess, his eyes ringed with exhaustion, pointing at a holographic display with a stylus. His lab coat was rumpled. There was a coffee stain on his collar.

    He looked exactly the same as he had thirteen years ago. Just older. More tired.

    Your fingers started tapping against your tablet. Index, ring, middle, pinky.

    His eyes found you.

    The room was full of people — forty or fifty scientists, most of them older than you, most of them decorated — but his gaze cut through the crowd like a laser. He stared at you for a long moment, his jaw going slack.

    Then he broke into a grin so wide it crinkled the corners of his eyes.

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    21 Jun 2026