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“We call this ♪♫.” “The color or the rock?” I tease, earning myself a low staccato noise not unlike what a human might sound like when faking a laugh. And then, from one second to another, he straightens. I sense the shift in the air, and as I rise from my squat, Rocky's gaze follows me very, very slowly. “What?” I ask. “Say name of this again,” he says, and I tilt my head. He’s never needed me to repeat something before. His hearing is immaculate, and he’s never once forgotten something I’ve told him. “It’s a rock.” He doesn’t move. He stares at me with his featureless face until even that feels more unsettling than eye contact. “Grace,” he says flatly. “You are fucking kidding me, question?” ///// Or: Rocky learns the meaning behind the name Grace gave him.

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