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“Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later. After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.” A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business. Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.

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