shallow ephemeral alkali endorheic

they get to erid and there are suddenly so many demands on rocky's time and everyone wants to see and interact with grace and adrian is on his ass about their relationship and he haaates it so much. so rocky (who has consumed copious amounts of earth media on their journey) becomes obsessed with the idea of running away together, just hauling ass to a completely different part of the planet where nobody will ask anything of them (don't ask him how that would work with a literal alien in tow.) but anyway grace is stuck in his fuckass biodome and it's so frustrating. so rocky spends hours and hours designing all kinds of contraptions that would allow them to run away together. and when he tells grace (possibly guilt-tripped into it before he's ready bc they shouldn't be keeping secrets from one another...), grace wants to chastize him and tell him he should be at least trying to fit back into society but he can't bring himself to because he's just. bowled over by the sheer romance of it. so he reluctantly starts peering at rocky's schematics and going "wait, why don't we try..." and rocky is so excited he does a cartwheel

PLEASE let them go on a stupid Human-scale roadtrip together… they have maps of Earth and records of traditional Earth roadtrips… Rocky is a mechanic, he can make a pressure vessel and slap it onto a crawler base and handle the support equipment and maintain the exotic floodlights… Let Them Design And Fabricate An RV Together And Then Traumatize Dr Grace From Going Out Into The Countryside And Rocky Hunting While They’re Out There Like It’s Normal To Do On Eridian Roadtrips

‘project hail mary is about the power of friendship’ ‘project hail mary is about hope’ ‘project hail mary is about accidentally becoming too important at work’ wrong wrong wrong you’re all wrong. project hail mary is about what it would take for a single man in his 30s to own a fully paid off beachfront property in today’s economy

let's boil uncle in water to reduce his essence into a tincture

this is why commas are so unimportant