in the book grace skips over trying to explain impatience to rocky, bc he thinks that a species as long-lived as eridians may not even understand the concept.
but then i was just thinking about hail mary arriving at erid. grace is sick but hanging in there. there's no safe place for him on erid yet.
so rocky goes home alone.
being met by the other members of the team, shipbuilders, engineers, and scientists, all eager to know what happened, where has he been all these years
and he needs help for grace.
having to explain what happened to the other twenty-two crew of the blip-a. why the blip-a was abandoned. giving them the taumoeba and explaining how it will need to be used WITHOUT XENONITE (literally their primary building resource) if its going to be in any way near astrophage fuel sources.
and he needs help for grace.
his first reunion with adrian is private. getting to see them again after so long, and how simultaneously devastating and healing that must be, to finally be in the company of your person for whom every moment together is not enough
and he needs help for grace.
there is so much to do and so much to go over but grace is up there in the hail mary alone. he is sick and dying and he is the only reason rocky made it home and why erid is going to live and he needs help now.
and the rest of the scientists have to learn everything about humans that rocky already has, he's spent years with just by living with grace the whole way home.
when every time rocky comes back up the elevator to check on grace he looks worse and worse, i have to imagine rocky wouldn't need impatience explained to him.
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