you guys ever think of how grace and rocky have slowly assimilated into each other in all the years theyve spent alone together. you guys ever think of grace becoming more and more eridian and rocky becoming more and more human.
grace picking up the habit of humming simple eridian words. grace tapping his foot twice when he's asking a question. grace instinctively hiding away when eating. grace being unable to sleep unless someone's watching him. grace saying hello and goodbye the way eridians do.
rocky tilting his carapace to convey emotions. rocky turning to "face" grace even when he has omnidirectional hearing. rocky attempting to emulate human gestures with his biology. rocky learning of hugs and kisses and wanting to give and receive them all the time.
they're both not quite human. they're both not quite eridian either. not quite on earth, and not quite on erid just yet. just grace and rocky, among the stars. like the hail mary is their own planet and the universe is the sun she orbits. just them. no one else.
