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“yeah, sure.” grace holds up the tooth to the xenonite barrier.

“no, closer,” rocky says, claws clicking nervously. “want to hold.”

grace considers that. if rocky were to, say, lose a chunk of carapace, he’d ask to have it without a second thought. he’d probably make an excuse about wanting to point a spectrometer at it or test its properties, and he’d obviously do those things, but he’d mainly just want to touch it. to hold a piece of rocky without fear of either of them being harmed.

Controversially young boyfriend: Ryland Grace (age: ~35+)

what does it mean when grace's heart beats faster? he looks it up on his portable earth thinking machine. fuck. it could mean anything. it could mean slight surprise or it could mean he's having a heart attack and actively dying.

there are so many liquids that grace's body expels, and so many that it holds. how does he know if its a good liquid or a bad liquid being expelled?? he cant tell the difference

it doesnt help that humans have a penchant for vague conversations and keeping things hidden, there is a nuance to so much of human communication that simply isnt there in eridian culture, and rocky's particular human is even more cagey about things than most

Not to mention the chemical burns, never seeing a tree in person again, spending the rest of his life in 2x gravity, no more cheese, no more bread, never being able to actually touch another sapient being, PTSD, no human medical experts, etc…

"-Oh yeah, so i suppose there are a lot of people around us"

At first i wanted to make some kind of comics but nahh i spent too much energy on this one.

Also didn't want to make Simon some kind of angry like original man on meme sooo i thought he would say the line jokingly

good luck to them when they land on erid, where all the other eridians are