grace, en route to erid, lying down under a quilt in the dark: *whispering* hey rocky
rocky: shhh grace asleep now
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 no want "revenge." statement.
grace: aw, are you sure? 🥺
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.
rocky: no I will remember this clearly until my death.