The data on the monitor can't be true, it can't be. I'm 17 years old, but this data says I'm a lot older, about 35 million years old, give or take four years.
"Excuse me, I need a little time alone." I leave the room, fighting tears. My mother, father, everyone is dead and now this? My mother isn't even my real mother, that I already know, but this can't be right. From what the data said, my real mother died 35 million years ago, sending me to Expel before she and her colleges were killed. But it can't be true, it's impossible, yet I know this place, I recognise it because this used to be my home when I was younger, when I was born. 35 million years, how?
From what the data said, my mother died just after her and her colleges managed to seal the Ten Wise Men in their comet, and then something went wrong and the entire science station was destroyed and the transporter to the station was switched off, and I was sent 35 million years into the past as a baby and arrived at Expel, where I was found in Shingo forest by my 'mother'.
All these years I never thought to ask her about why I was so different from her and father, now I can't ask since Expel was destroyed by the Ten Wise Men, or as Claude puts it, 'drained of life and then pulled apart in the time it takes to brink, they didn't know what hit them.' But now this, to find out about my past like this, and to actually come home, this is hard to take in. I leave the station and head for the most familiar area, the forest. I go up to the tree that has been there nowhere near as long as I've been alive, it is only about a few hundred years old, best guess anyway. I sit down on one of it's roots that are sticking out of the ground and finally let the tears fall. A minute later, Claude appears, he must have been running, he's out of breath.
"Rena, finally. I don't know what to say, sorry seems somewhat, well, late. Mind if I join you?" I shake my head and he sits down beside me.
"Claude, do you think you'll ever see your home again?" He looked up at the upper branches of the tree and then looked at me.
"I don't know, maybe once all this is done and we've stopped the Ten Wise Men, but other than that, I really don't know at all." I shift a little and take his hand. It's warm and I hold onto it, Claude doesn't seem to mind.
"I wonder that myself, will I ever get back home, see mother, my friends, everyone, ever again? My home is gone, my real home is dead and I seem to be alone, even with friends around me. I failed to protect everyone I love and yet I know that together, as one, we can get them back." I look into Claude's eyes and then he hugs me, not a kiss though, wonder when that will happen? In the weeks we've known each other, I feel safe with him, even happy. Only my mother ever made me feel like that.
"Is it okay if we stay here, just for a little while? I would like that." Claude nods his head and we sit back and look up at the sky through the braches of the tree, night is slowly setting and the stars are slowly appearing. In this one instant, we're all the life in the universe, in time. 35 million years of life all wrapped up in a single moment forever.