FiveofDiamonds



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    “Oh, it’s a way for humans to tell each other they’re taken. To remember,” I say, popping a bunch more gummy bears into my mouth. Rocky makes a disgusted sound and I smile as I chew. “It’s just a nice way of showing they have someone they committed to.”

    Rocky freezes. I don’t notice for a good few seconds, not until I get the pressing sensation that he’s staring at me, his lack of eyes irrelevant.

    I turn to face him. He’s jittering, something like shaking from excitement or anger, I’m not sure.

    “Rocky?” I ask.

    “Grace have ring,” he points, and oh no. “Grace have mate? Why Grace no say!?”

    I hold up my hands before he can get too excited, though I can already hear a familiar sound, a repeating joyful and confused song start to escape from him.

    “No, no, no!” he freezes again. Deflates, a little. I sigh and run a hand down my face. “It’s… complicated.”

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    14 Jun 2026

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    "You sighed again," Carl remarked. "That's the fourth time in as many minutes."

    Ryland pressed the heel of his hand to his eye. "My ex is attending the conference."

    The room went silent, but not in awkwardness. It was intrigue.

    Carl sat up, his eyes sparking to life. "Dr. Grace gets around, eh?"

    Ryland gave him a look that he hoped amounted to, blow up into a million fiery pieces.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Popular tales in Eridian folklore include a long, lanky creature that cracks the carapaces of those who enter the ocean.
    So when Erid’s saviour returns in a small, foreign spaceship, missing 23 crewmates, and presenting a creature with an uncanny resemblance to their cautionary tales, Erid is, understandably, horrified.

    Yet at some point, somehow, the creature had found its way into the hearts of Eridians, and the grotesque alien from the unknown of space became a beloved teacher of their most vulnerable.

    Or: Erid learns to love Grace.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    The world is ending; Grace loves his students too much to save them, Stratt loves Grace too much to save him, and Rocky loves Grace just enough to shift the universe to the left for him.

     

    Or: love follows Grace across the galaxy.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Doctor Ryland Grace has always been a teacher.
    Across ships– both sea and space fairing, late night cramming sessions beneath the unsteady lights of the college library; beyond the Earth itself. Grace has found himself awaiting curious eyes with the sort of natural nervous confidence documented only amongst educators and crash test dummies.

    So when we ask: “Why is a school teacher in space?” The answer is obvious, so he could carve a classroom out of the stars.

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    11 Jun 2026