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“Okay, screw you,” I say anyway, because that’s what we do. I take the shower head off its holder and aim it at Rocky, dousing him in water. Rocky straightens his legs, startled. He just stands there, frozen, and for a moment I’m worried I’ve hit a nerve or something, that the sensation scrapes against something primal in his brain, like cold, wet caves back when Eridians didn’t yet know how to build shelter. I’m about to put the shower head back. But then, the moment I’m no longer spraying him, Rocky turns around and all but shoves his carapace in my direction. I’m perplexed, mustering him with the water aimed away from him, and Rocky stomps a claw against the tiling. “Oh,” I say, grinning. I turn the spray toward him again, and Rocky gives a shuddering hum of pure glee. “You like that, huh?” “Yes,” he says, wiggling from side to side like a tortoise rubbing its little butt on a bristle brush. “Like like like.” ///// Or: Rocky joins Grace in the shower. Shenanigans ensue.

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