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Grace. Hello!

…Ah, this is awkward. I do not know how to talk by myself like this, into a camera when you and Rocky are not around.

He did not know about this little plan of mine, by the way. I do not know if he would have been able to hide it from you, but I did not want him to make that choice, when he has already given us a way home that we could never have dreamed of having.

Well. Given you, now, I guess. And of course you did not suspect it either, even when you knew about the food situation as well as I did.

Rocky is right. For a smart man, Grace, you can be very stupid, do you know that? One would have thought you should learned your lessons about eating things strangers give you by now. I slipped the sedative in your dinner before I handed it to you. Nothing strong, as you would have realised. I think the coma has made us all quite resistant to drugs. It is a shame, really.

Are you still there? You had better be. I will be incredibly upset if I have recorded this for nothing because you have rushed off in some panicked attempt to save me. It is futile. I am engineer, yes, but I know science enough for the important stuff.

This is the best way for it to end, you understand? Yao and I, we came here prepared to do what we had to and I am proud to have seen that through in his stead. We thought you had made that choice too, but you did not. Foolish of us to have let ourselves be convinced otherwise.

So I am giving you that choice back. Or perhaps this is just another cruelty to you. I do not know anymore. Only the Director can make these choices without even batting an eyelash. They are very fine eyelashes, of course.

Give Stratt hell from me when you get back, by the way. And tell Dimitri if watching this is what finally makes you swear for once, he can buy you the drink he owes me for it. I will watch both you and Rocky from the stars. Goodbye, friend Grace. It has been very good knowing you.