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“To The Night & The Cloud” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

1914

Artist : Jessie Bayes (1876-1970)

Star&White wings

ooo my ship✨

commission

everyone gets onto eva stratt for the "think about it long time" vs. "you have three hours" thing but

operating on book canon a little bit: if grace couldn't do it-- if he said no*-- the alternative was to scramble and fly in the next most qualified volunteer, who had 0 training, 0 knowledge of astrophage, and was not an astronaut. three hours could have been three hours of training for that replacement. three hours could have been three hours of preparation for grace, if he said yes

eva stratt gave grace three hours. not to decide, necessarily, because the decision was going to be made the way it was no matter what. but three hours to come to terms with it, to grieve, to mentally prepare himself. three hours that could have been spent giving humanity a better chance to survive

she borrowed three hours that she didn't have to give grace space to process. to get himself together and come to her, teary-eyed but resolved, and say yes.

When Rocky tosses the zenonite container with his message inside and Grace doesn't get it and it just bounces off the hull the speed at which Rocky gets the second container ready (it's literally seconds) and sends it flying over makes me think that no, he didn't think Grace was stupid for not catching the first container, and instead implies the much funnier idea that Rocky had at least two, probably three, canisters with tiny star-system maps inside them locked and ready to go because he had no idea what kind of alien race he was about to encounter either and he realized he might have to try sending the message more than once.