The blazing sun hung high in the desert sky as it beat down on the golden sea. Among the frozen ocean atop a dune stood a young woman with her grey-blue eyes shielded by her hand as she peered out at the expanse. Sweat dripped on her forehead as her chest heaved for air. Her cream-and-rose skin glowed in the sunlight all the while as a smile spread across her dry lips. Though her bangs were plastered to her face, the rest of her dark brown hair was pulled back in to a ponytail that now clung to her equally sweaty neck.
I'm gonna miss all this. She thought to herself, used to her life on the road. Her father was an archaeologist and they were always on the go. For her last year of high school though, he had found it best to let her properly get educated and admission in to college. A sense of excitement and anxiety rippled through her for the umpteenth time. She would be settled in a proper town and attending a proper school for the first time in a long time. A hollowness started to echo in her at the fact she would be leaving this adventurous life. I'll definitely be back. I won't give this up for anything. She promised to the Earth before she walked off to the nearby encampment that was set up with a spring in her step. This was just a new chapter in her life and she would start with a clean page.