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    If Grace had to pick one word to describe the trip to Erid, it would be boring.

    If he had to pick a second word to describe it . . . it would be lonely.

    Or, on the way to Erid, Grace is getting pretty touch starved, but he had kinda already been touch starved? So he improvises.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Grace, question?

    His tone is patient, the chords of his words simplified so that I can definitely understand him without my laptop-translator-rig. See, he’s just considerate like that.

    No one in all the Earth Sci-Fi stories and movies tells you that the aliens will be kind.

    Another tap of his arm. Sad thoughts?

    “Sad thoughts.” I concede. No point lying to someone who can hear your heartbeat.

    Hm.

    I’m proud of myself for identifying the note as a thinking sound, a filler word. I gotta say, my foray into exolinguistics has been an excellent distraction from the general misery that is my now-mostly-remembered-life.

    Do you want to talk about it?

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    Some overdue conversations . Time spent together on the way back to Erid re-opens some old (and some fresh) wounds.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    Grace is touch starved.

    Rocky can fix.

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    12 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 41

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    Rocky hummed. "We have cultural practice. Is like mates without eggs. It is like… soul bond. Other person who is part of you."

    "I like that," Grace smiled. "Sounds a bit like platonic soulmates from Earth culture."

    "Yes yes yes," Rocky said. "Tried to find words on thinking machine. Those are right words, amaze amaze amaze!"

    On Erid, just because you have a mate, it doesn't mean you can't have a soul bond with someone else too.

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    12 Jun 2026