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  1. Public Bookmark 62

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    “DuBois. Annie. You can’t send them.”

    Eva blinked.

    “Then what do you propose I do instead?”

    His chest stopped moving for a few seconds, as did his hands. He was still, all of a sudden. Motionless, his eyes still staring at her but the muscles around them contracting like he was fighting a deep instinct to squeeze them shut.

    He began to breathe again, shallowly. Then, he opened his mouth.

    “Send me.”

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    Ryland Grace has thought it all through. He is the only person truly qualified for the mission. He knows Stratt will agree to send him; he's expendable to her.

    So naturally, he makes sure they become friends before he leaves.

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  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    "You’re overwhelmed,” Stratt said. There wasn’t any heat, any emotion behind the words. She was staring at him, hands clasped in front of her. She looked intense, as always, except she also looked soft. Her gaze was almost gentle, except it still had that underlying need for efficiency, that dry necessity everything Stratt did was tainted by.

    Grace stared at her, gripping his shoulders with his hands so hard his nails were painfully digging into flesh.

    “What do you want to do about it?” he bit out, more defensively than he’d intended. She’d use that against him. She was good at that.

    Stratt shrugged. She had that same expression on her face she always had, something oddly sad and solemn for a resting face.

    “I have tea and hot chocolate. I hear Americans like hot chocolate,” she said. She held his gaze for a moment more. She looked away slowly, eyes tracing the shape of the laboratory windows. “If you come with me, you can have some.”

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    Grace is overstimulated, and Stratt only wants to make up for the fact that she made her scientist inefficient in the first place.

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    Scruffy beard, glasses, hair in disarray. He's in a simple button-down and jeans, no place to hide any meaningful weapons, and faces away from Driver—exposes his vulnerable side, forgoes line of sight—to crouch in front of two boys who have been so silent he only now notices.

    “C'mere,” the man mutters. He hoists one of them up and into his arms. The boy rests his cheek on the man's shoulder with a quiet sniffle, eyes squeezed shut. His small hands wrap around the man's nape in a death grip. He has a SpongeBob-patterned bandaid on his nose bridge.

    The other boy grips onto the man's shirt hem with just as much vigor, though his eyes are wide open. He looks up at Driver with pointed eyes, clear and devastatingly full of suspicion.

    They look at each other for half a moment of contemplative quiet.

    Then, softly, “What floor?” Driver asks.

    The elevator door closes.

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    Driver moves to the new apartment. Instead of Irene, his neighbor is kind teacher Ryland Grace with two twin younger brothers he's taking care of.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    The last shot is accompanied by the trail of a cry, shrill, angry, fearful. Arthur lowers his revolver. Blinks. Tongues at a bloody tooth from getting hit while strangling an O’Driscoll, spits red mucus onto one of the bodies on the floor.

    The crying starts up again, as if sensing Arthur’s confusion. For a moment, Arthur thinks it must be some poor lady these savages have taken alongside the house, but quickly knows it to be untrue. It’s too—wet, pointless in a way only the young can manage, knowing that something is wrong but not knowing what. Just a shout, not the bellowing anguish of someone who knows what god-awful situation they have been put in.

    “Christ,” he says, once, twice. “Christ.”

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    Arthur accidentally adopts a baby, and, despite his best judgement, ends up starting to raise him. He falls in love with Charles along the way.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Dutch caught Hosea's shoulder as he turned away.

    "Come on now, Old Girl, you're not–"

    The pet name was what did it. Hosea ripped his arm from his shoulder, pulling his revolver and shoving it into his chest. "I. Wasn't. Askin'."

    Dutch and Micah return to Clemens Point without Arthur. Hosea does not agree with their synopsis that all is well.

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  6. Public Bookmark 24

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    30 Jun 2026

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  7. Public Bookmark 25

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    After collecting a bounty, Arthur and Charles make their way up to where they can live peacefully and honestly.

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    30 Jun 2026

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  8. Public Bookmark 63

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    “I think little humans love you,” Rocky says. “Must. You are—”

    He hesitates, thinking.

    “Need word. Love very much, but not person. Love thing. Love doing. Need nothing else.”

    He has a way of working his limited vocabulary into just the right order. I turn to look at him like a starving animal that’s just been offered food, crumpling under how warm it makes me feel.

    “Passionate,” I say weakly. Rocky sings the Eridian word, a multi-layered crescendo of chords that each seem to pour into the next, one by one by one. “I guess I am.”

    Rocky gestures with a chain link he’s picked up, getting back to work. “Everything you do, you are focused. Work work work. You teach me language. You teach me human ways. No give up until problem is solved. No rest until stupid. Passion.”

    “Darn,” I say, for lack of more intelligent words. Rocky briefly looks up from his chain.

    “What, question?”

    “I never thought about it like that.”

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    Or: With nothing to do besides putting together a chain one link at a time, Grace and Rocky find time to have a moment.

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  9. Public Bookmark 97

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    Without Grace, all Rocky plural perish,” Rocky continued tirelessly, as if he’d been holding all of this back for ages. “All Rocky can do is love savior Grace for rest of life. Rocky Grace ♫♬♩♪.

    It nearly came as a surprise to be confronted with a new Eridian term, but Grace’s brain short-circuited upon hearing these unknown chords. Hardly able to put any sound to his voice, he uttered, “Need word, Rock.”

    Meant to be together forever,” Rocky explained.

    Grace took a very shaky breath. “Soulmates,” he defined. “You think we’re soulmates.”

    Rocky no think,” he said, tapping one foot against the bunk to give strength to his words. “Rocky know.

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  10. Public Bookmark 21

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    Rocky was waiting for Grace,” he eventually answered. “For many years.

    “So…you think I might be onto something?”

    Yes.” Rocky placed one of his claws against the glass. “Meant to meet. Grace knew it too.

    As if on autopilot, Grace lay his palm against the other side.

    Grace head not in clouds. Grace head near Tau Ceti.

    ~~~

    Just Grace, Rocky and their love-filled days in outer space.

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    30 Jun 2026

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  11. Public Bookmark *

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    Alternate take on Blessed Are the Peacemakers because Arthur didn't get the comfort he deserved.

    Marked complete at 100 chapters but still updated occasionally.

    I still accept prompts for chapters.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    It was just like teaching his kids on Earth. Except it was one kid and he scooted around like a crackhead in a hamster ball.
    A collection of short one-shots of Rocky learning about human customs and words.

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  13. Public Bookmark 5

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    28 Jun 2026

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  14. Public Bookmark 41

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    When Arthur doesn't appear around camp all morning, Charles goes to check up on him.

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    As it turns out, Charles is the only person in camp who can pick up Arthur.

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  16. Public Bookmark 11

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    Arthur could hear the smile behind Dutch’s words. A part of him ached. “Why now?”
    There was a mutual understanding of the question. Whenever they’d pondered about the relentlessness of the world, the why-nows, it was usually spent debating on what started the latest bar fight, why they can't go back to whichever town, or how did so-and-so get himself killed. Each time they concluded without a true answer. There was only moving on. When a minute passed and Dutch still sat silent, idly petting his right hand over his spine, it was clear that now was no exception. But unlike past circumstances, this moment carried with it an unfamiliar tenderness that Arthur had no idea where to bury.

    Dutch offers Arthur a back rub. It goes according to plan.

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  17. Public Bookmark 45

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    For all his boasting, Sean isn't the best lover, and Arthur decides to take matters into his own hands to try and improve his technique - for Karen's sake, of course.

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  18. Public Bookmark 92

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    The horrible swamp encounter expanded bc I think comfort was needed but also set in shady belle camp bc Hosea's still alive there etc etc and also I like John and Charles' friendship and wanted to expand on that more pre-epilogue

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  19. Public Bookmark 71

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    28 Jun 2026

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    Arthur doesn't do well with change. Small changes he can handle, but large ones have always knocked him a little off kilter. Usually he can adjust, given enough time - get his footing back and walk it off.

    But not this time.

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