Chapter 2
Get Set
Turned Left. No. Turned Right. No.
Kanata sat up. Nah, no sleep.
He looked at the opened wardrobe. There lies she, seemed to be in sound sleep, relaxed over the white sheet of cloth.
All the incidents happened tonight came running in his mind. He took the 'doll' in, and interrogated :
-W-Who are you?
- I am hungry.
- Eh?
- What you call it? Oh yes, milk. Give me milk, aitch two o.. I mean water, and anything organic..
Kanata got troubled. A tinny creature, entering his room, is ordering him; and he is obeying..
Two drops of milk, A corner bit of bread, and a single drop of water. She ate with relish.
- Hmm, what's it? It smells Protozoa.. and flour..
Kanata nodded. True, Making bread requires Yeast.
- Now, tell me who you are? Kanata took a long breath, closing eye, "How and WHY you are here?"
He opened his eyes, and found her almost falling down the table.
-Hey! With his index finger he saved her from collapsing.
- Eh? She looked with red eyes, and yawned, "Sorry, I get instantly sleepy the moment I eat.. Can you arrange a bed for me?"
What a #$&^. Thought Kanata.
And now.. there she lies, huh. What is she? An alien? She must be. But why she came here?
With random thought, Kanata felt sleep taking him over..
A sharp sense of burning.
Kanata opened eyes, as his hands automatically went to the hurt place. What was that?
That doll.
She is holding a little instrument on her hand, looked somehow a pen. Or is it a gun? That it is.. So she is actually an evil?
"What are you doing?" Kanata yelled.
"Sorry, A little laser. I had no other easier way to wake you up.."
"LASER? My God! You..you have firearms!"
"Sort of, You always have to be ready to defend yourself. Anyway, I need to go to bathroom."
Kanata suppressed his fury. "OK." He took her up, and led her to the bathroom.
She stood near the water outlet, looked up, and asked, "What?"
"What?"
"Are you going to stare at me standing here?"
"Oops! Sorry.."
Kanata came out running all crimson.
Why my heart is beating so fast?
"I guess you need an introduction to know my current condition and requirements. My name is Msriyu Khnzozuki, a resident of planet Thebos.
"M- what was that?"
"Oh, sorry" nodded the alien, "It's not possible for you to utter. The closest in your language.. the pronunciation would be Miyu Kozuki. You can call me Miyu."
"Well then-"
"I came to solar system travelling a distance of thirty five Electa, or in your calculation about 900 light years.."
"No way! nothing is faster than light!"
"So primitive. Thebos is technologically more advanced than earth, in fact our way of technology is much different from you." she said confidently. Kanata was hopeless.
"Fine. I believe. Now what you want in earth?"
"I was not aiming for earth. I was going to Mars for my educational project."
"Edu-!" Kanata could not believe his ears.
"Yes, we go different part of universe for our projects on planetology at school level. Age-old system.." she said it so easy, "But suddenly something went wrong with my spaceship, minor problems. I needed some natural gravitation to do the repairs, so entered earth's atmosphere. My biggest mistake. This planet has damn high gravitation than I thought.. and.."
She sighed. Silence for a minute. Kanata was trying to digest the words she said sitting on the breakfast table.
"So-" Kanata said with hesitation, "How would you go back now?"
"I sent a SOS, they surely would answer on my device.." she pointed to the laser gun. "It's a multi functioning machine, you see. But not so good at receiving signals. I think.."
Suddenly a light lit on the 'device'. "It has come!" she promptly started touching on the screen.
Kanata finished his breakfast. So the problem is over with this strange being, uh. thought he.
She put it back on her pocket, with a visibly brighter face.
"What?"
"They gave me option to continue my project here.. and I accepted gladly!There seems so many things to learn here!"
The spoon fell off Kanata's hand.
