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Im going to be so honest with you guys grace is genuinely just asleep in the comic he's got like a few weeks left in him

Like is he dying? Yes. Both of them can sense it. But!! This isn't a last conversation, this is just grace making sure that rocky knows how much his life has changed because of him

rocky's crew dying from radiation exposure, something humans go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of and ryland's crew dying in their "sleep" with nobody watching, something eridians go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of. cool book that is easy to read through your tears.

Trying to act like you don’t know recent brain rot culture

Its actually so important to me that Ryland Grace is a teacher. Not a professor, not someone at the top of their field teaching the smartest people, but a middle school science teacher. Of course he figured out how to communicate with an alien in under a day. His main expertise is explaining complex subjects to a group that doesnt have the vocabulary or context to fully understand them. He knows exactly how to simplify things down to its core principles without sacrificing any of the scientific logic. And he knows how to do it without having to throw around hyperspecific terminology.