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Project Hail Mary Lino Prints - scanned & coloured

Because the name Grace had symbolic significance, I thought Ryland would too.

Ryland means “from the rye land”, so I looked up rye to see if it was more interesting than I thought at first glance.

Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is grown principally in an area from Eastern and Northern Europe into Russia. It is much more tolerant of cold weather and poor soil than other cereals, making it useful in those regions…

From the Wikipedia page for rye.

It got me thinking about how my primary touchstone for rye is rye bread. Then in turn, bread is often a symbol for life and in the Bible, bread can be interpreted as a symbol for God’s grace. Then with the definitions for grace (ie “god-given help or kindness”, benevolence, or even mercy)…

My atmosphere would kill him and his me, but I like to keep a wall up in my relationships anyways.

And Grace can't exactly speak Eridian, cause his vocal chords phisically can't, but I imagine over the years it took them to return to Erid, we would've picked up quite a lot of Rpcky's grammar, tone indicators and acoompanyin movements.

But to the room full of world leaders bombarding him with Astorphage breeding questions when he arrived at the Vat. Like he JUST got there and he's dizzy and sick and they were all shouting and muscle memory just kicked in, you gotta believe him, he wasn't even thinking.

They'd all be so shocked it would work though.

He'd have .001 second to panic, like did he really just do that, and then its either control or loose control of the room just like any middle school class.

He'd still have his hand up like "Okay. Who wants to go first."

And Eva would watch like three people actually, legitimately, raise their hands and wait to be called.

Eridian Field Trip.

Happy pride month from Grace!