IT'S TIME FOR KNIVES

reply by SaveTheKeys @TheyTypeALot: The MOST cringe thing in written communication (and OMG I see this ALL the time) is when a writer communicates what's happening. A good story isn't a story at all. It's a shadow of a clue that suggests it might lead to a clue. Keep the reader guessing whether they're even reading

reply by [dave ring]: You get it. What if, instead of reading a story, we just looked at a long time of commas and wondered what was happening between the pauses? That's where you find real art.

"Heck, if he wanted to do open-heart surgery on me, I'd probably let him. The guy is amazing at this stuff."

rocky: shhh grace asleep now

grace: no, 'm awake

rocky: grace asleep now, command.

grace: I just wanted to say--

rocky: grace need sleep now, you always stupid when you try to speak at this time.

grace: I just wanted to say that if you're, I don't know, still a little mad or resentful about me trying to operate on your radiators and almost killing you that one time--

rocky: no no no, we talk about this before, rocky not mad. not happy about it, either, but understand. I live, is okay.

grace: yeah yeah, I remember, you were weirdly calm about it in a way that was a liiiittle concerning. so, yknow, if you were upset and holding something back to try 'n be nice--

rocky: rocky is not nice.

grace: okay not true. BUT, right, if you DID have some feelings that you weren't letting yourself vent, I was just thinking that, like, if you wanted to make it even and express some of your frustration, I would let--I mean, if you wanted to, and if you asked, if you thought you could get something out of it, like, either scientifically or emotionally or something, I wouldn't actually say "no" if you said that you wanted to. yknow. operate on me. like as mini-revenge.

rocky:

rocky: rocky no want "revenge." statement.

grace: aw, are you sure? 🥺

rocky:

grace:

rocky:

grace: ...I have been awake for, uh, twenty-two hours. sooo maybe we just forget I said any of that? maybe ignore all of that? ha ha. ha.

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I imagine him practicing his gentle touch on a doll or a puppet he had made from frail materials because he needs a lot of finesse and motor control if he wants to come in contact with his favorite space oddity without tearing his skin off like the foil off a sandwitch.

Grace constantly covered in deep angry bruises because Rocky bumped into him too hard or reached to hold his hand too excitedly. Grace never telling Rocky because he was trying so hard to be controlled already.

Rocky deciding to keep himself as still as possible when Grace hugs him because a single wrong move could end up with Grace's delicate limbs under +300 kgs of solid mineral.