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    Ryland Grace has finally touched solid ground again and the Eridians are adamant to help cure the starvation he experienced on the journey to Erid. However, his recovery is less than smooth.

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    The computer slowly turns up the lights in the dormitory when it detects my movement. Every morning it's like I get a little sunrise, even though I'm so far away from the sun or any star, really, that would give me this experience of building light. And warmth. Usually I wake up on what I think of as a pretty average morning in the spring, because the temperature in the Hail Mary stays at 22°C, always.

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    Grace has told me it doesn't rue flooding its ship with my atmosphere and hurting itself to save me. It has said that it doesn't regret turning back to Tau Ceti to rescue me a second time. Grace says it doesn't bemoan abandoning its journey home, back to Earth, for my sake. So many times, and at least as often as I have tried to tell it how I feel. After all, I had failed in so many parts of my mission even before it came. Granted they don't outweigh returning to Erid with the remedy for our dimming star, and I am as surely elated in anticipation as I will be in fact once we land, in the Taumoeba to save Eridani.

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    It's hard to make sense of the dream that settles in front of my eyes this night. I try to, but when I suddenly jolt upright in my bunk, the walls of the Hail Mary around me, it all falls away. I touch my chest and feel my heart racing, and take a few quick breaths. I shake, like I have the chills, but feel neither cold nor hot. There's loud thumping in my ears.

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    This is the second time in half an hour I threw up. Mercifully, into the toilet this time, that the ship pops out for me on command, instead of down my own shirt or onto the floor where I'll just have to mop it up myself, anyway. We have slight acceleration toward Erid and, therefor, gravity—so the latter is definitely the lesser of the two evils.

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    I yawn, waking up. This is the 5th night or so I've spent sleeping in the tunnel, with Rocky watching me. I've watched him sleep just once in that time. He's learned more about human sleep than I about Eridian sleep, to be sure. 

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    Doing EVAs is thirsty work. Who knew that, even in zero gravity, moving around so much is pretty demanding? Of course, I've gotten way better at it. Even Rocky agrees, though mainly when we put it in contrast with my piloting. Naturally, if I put my work up against his engineering skills, I still come short and he, just as much as I, wishes I had a few more hands, I guess. 

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    Stratt looks at me out of the corner of her eye when I stay standing there. I take this as my cue. "That's it? That's all you're going to say?" "Investigations into the incident have not concluded," she tells me, impassively. I slam my hands on her desk, beside myself. How can she— "That's not what I mean!" I shout.

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    I'm not drinking enough. I know, I should drink more because I'm not getting as much fluids as I need, as I would get from food, from the Taumoeba. However, as we're getting closer and closer to Erid, I also need to ration my water. Between the maximum capacity of the water tanks aboard the Hail Mary and the small amount that's still lost through my sweat and evaporation during the recycling, I just can't make any allowances.

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    Some part of the way on our trip to Erid, I get it into my head to confess to Rocky how I came to be on the Hail Mary. After all that I've been able to and decided to do out here, even as I stand there, and still so angry at Stratt for making me go in the way that I did, I'm still so ashamed that I didn't volunteer to save Earth.

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    A few minutes ago I told Stratt to shove off. My last moments on Earth, I don't want them to be with someone I'll hate forever. Even so, I thought I would have more time. I startle when the door clinks to unlock and swings open once more, and two guards and a doctor come in.

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    No more painkillers, I told myself. I want want want to work, badly. Repeating a word means extreme emphasis, Rocky and I had agreed early on. It's exactly what I said to him when I decided to stop cold turkey for the sake of working.

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    My heart hammers in my chest. I slam the airlock shut behind me after all but crawling inside the ship. I almost just died out there! Not a tragic, sudden death, but the thought of floating out into the lone darkness of space as the Hail Mary disappears from my eyes grabbed me by the throat.

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    The Hail Mary was never meant to last this long in deep outer space. We're almost three years into our trip to Erid and a lot has come up that needs to be repaired, constantly. Ironically, Rocky, the genius engineer that he is, can't do much of the fixing himself.

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    I sit in the desk chair in Stratt's office. It swivels as she moves from my right side over to my left. Her fingers press against my wrist. I shiver, she has cold hands.

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    I haven't asked to watch Rocky eat again since that first time. Now he just tells me when he goes to eat, and I know about how long it takes him to then come watch him sleep after. His breathing hard and fast in the first few minutes no longer worries me, as I know what is going on, and that was that last night too.

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    I don't know that humans even know the feeling of food sitting heavy inside of you. I last ate 81600 seconds ago, after which I slept for 38800 seconds. When I woke up, I soon noticed that something in my body was not right.

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    "Good morning. You wake up now?" Talking to me, her voice is light and bright. I guess, I mean to nod but it's just my head shifting against the bed I'm on. Not very pronounced movement, and I don't actually want to be awake until I realize, again, that I'm having trouble speaking and it bothers me enough this time to stick around to work on it. 

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    I just got the soot out of Rocky's radiator organ. I felt proud of all the engineering I did this time and now I hope it was enough to save my friend. It will be, it has to be, I've said to myself. All that confidence, though, drains out of me the moment I get to sit down.

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    Ava raises her hand. "Mr. Grace?" I love when my students are engaged and ask questions, and I really try to keep that momentum in my classroom. I nod to her to go ahead. "My grandma said that you're supposed to feed a cold and starve a fever. What does that mean?"

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