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From the early days of my life I'd always wondered if there was a way to fly like the birds that'd I grew up around.
I never knew my parents, Only that the small handful of people around me were abandoned here too, Some say it's some tradition in our culture that all second born children are throw into this forest and left to fend for ourselves.
I was cared for by a lady named Luna, She was kind and loving, Truth is I think she just liked the fact I gathered firewood for her in return for some human contact. ( A hug... )
Years went by and we started to build things, not me though, I just watched, and gathered the wood, I had no idea what half the things they were building were. But we slept in this wooden shelters, and ate from not only animals and wildlife but plants we placed in the ground too...
I've always been lost in where we were, or how some of the people knew how to build these things, but I just went along with it, and did my part as a gatherer.
I'd eventually learnt how to construct what we later called houses and farmland areas for our people and our population grew. and some of us even left to start their own villages else where...
Luna left with a group of people in search for better things and I stayed to build the village up and maintain it.
Our numbers started to exceed more then I could count! ( 100's )
I kept in contact with other villages near by as I started to trade with them. they found alot of rock/earthy material that was stronger then wood, and we had edible plants. it seemed in both our interests to do so.
But that was all to change,
Suddenly a large noisy and bright lights flashing came from over the hills..
Naturally we went to investigate and saw none other then what we thought was a shining bird, it wasn't organic at all, a female climbed out of this bird, clearly injured but she was aggressive and shouted at us waving some sort of stick thing, made out of the same material this bird was.
She collapsed and we took her in, tended to her burns and cuts, while examining her bird and stick, one of us accidently activated this stick of hers and it destroyed a hole in our roof top. needless to say we were glad she didn't use that against us ...
She woke up after 2 days, and was calm, thanked us for our help and wanted to return to her " ship" she called it, she said her name was Megan and she was from a place called Bretonia and was on a long range tactical mission in the border lands exploring uninhabited planets when she was shot down..
Naturally at the time, that made little sense to us but we helped her back to her ship.
She spent days after days at it, trying to fix it to fly again, but she required so many materials we'd never of heard of..
Things like " Cobalt " and " Niobium " for her engine...
She searched our local area for these materials and made do with substitutes that she found...
Within a month of her staying with us her ship was ready and her and I were... well, getting close.
She asked me to go with her, to explore space.. She'd been reported as killed in action so started fresh.
We made our way to a system called Pennsylvania which was a good 3 years journey from where we were...
She said something about having no cruise engines and not being able to link up to a ' trade lane ' so we had to stick to lower speeds..
We stopped occasionally on these stations and other planets, and I saw so much more.. Ships, technology I could of only dreamed of. it was incredible.
As the time went by, I learnt how to fly her 'ship' and learnt slowly about the technology and the space around us...
And now here I am.
In Pennsylvania with Megan. We're aiming to start trading materials and gather alot of ' credits ' as apparently, they're the most valued thing in this area of space.