From outer space, the Earth suddenly seemed to change. The deep blue
of the planet's seas that on past occasions had inspired an artistic
quality unmatched by anything man-made, dulled and greyed until it became
completely lacking of any particular quality at all. The land which before
had such a unique vision of texture that an onlooker could tease with their
tongue and taste in their mouth, darkened and blurred like the faded
streaks of finger drawings on a steamed up mirror.
From the incoming pod's position, the Earth had now become the equivalent of the insides of an intergalactic drain pipe. The youthful face inside the pod gently frowned. She had not expected this. What was happening inside those now thinned clouds of string that wrapped and knotted themselves across Earth's gaseous atmosphere?
The youth's frown deepened. "Niy could be in trouble," she thought. The youth sorted through her new-found thoughts quickly and came up with a conclusion with a quick and deadly certainty. With her long, anorexically thin, and bony fingers that each ended in a long curved talon, she tapped the buttons of her main controls and turned the long-ranged scanners off.
"I'm coming, Niy," she thought with a serious determination that was surprising for someone that looked so childish. Pressing a few more controls, the space pod responded by adding power to its engine; traveling at its maximum speed. The pod shot past Saturn, arrived at, and passed Jupiter within the blink of a second. It dodged the asteroids with a hurried grace, took a quick skip past Mars, and charged into Earth's atmosphere where the red heat of friction swallowed it whole.
With a few more taps of her slender fingers, the pod steamed with pressure as it halted its entry into earthen air. The space pod more or less madly floated down to an island's sandy soil where its arrival was announced with nothing more than a spray of dirt.
The hydraulics of the small pod angrily hissed as the hatch to the pod was forced open. The alien climbed out with a graceful, light step that left the most subtle of footprints on the loose dry surface of the island. Underneath the dulled and grayed sky, her body melted into the background without any help. She stretched her wings unceremoniously into the bland air and with one slight flap flew in the air, twirling and spiraling as if a living miracle had just deemed the planet worthy enough of it's presence.
Immediately, the creature from outer space pinpointed Niy's power signature in her mind and shot toward it with a speed that grew and almost defied the sound barrier.
"I'm coming Niy," she thought. "I can feel you're despair and I'm coming."
From the incoming pod's position, the Earth had now become the equivalent of the insides of an intergalactic drain pipe. The youthful face inside the pod gently frowned. She had not expected this. What was happening inside those now thinned clouds of string that wrapped and knotted themselves across Earth's gaseous atmosphere?
The youth's frown deepened. "Niy could be in trouble," she thought. The youth sorted through her new-found thoughts quickly and came up with a conclusion with a quick and deadly certainty. With her long, anorexically thin, and bony fingers that each ended in a long curved talon, she tapped the buttons of her main controls and turned the long-ranged scanners off.
"I'm coming, Niy," she thought with a serious determination that was surprising for someone that looked so childish. Pressing a few more controls, the space pod responded by adding power to its engine; traveling at its maximum speed. The pod shot past Saturn, arrived at, and passed Jupiter within the blink of a second. It dodged the asteroids with a hurried grace, took a quick skip past Mars, and charged into Earth's atmosphere where the red heat of friction swallowed it whole.
With a few more taps of her slender fingers, the pod steamed with pressure as it halted its entry into earthen air. The space pod more or less madly floated down to an island's sandy soil where its arrival was announced with nothing more than a spray of dirt.
The hydraulics of the small pod angrily hissed as the hatch to the pod was forced open. The alien climbed out with a graceful, light step that left the most subtle of footprints on the loose dry surface of the island. Underneath the dulled and grayed sky, her body melted into the background without any help. She stretched her wings unceremoniously into the bland air and with one slight flap flew in the air, twirling and spiraling as if a living miracle had just deemed the planet worthy enough of it's presence.
Immediately, the creature from outer space pinpointed Niy's power signature in her mind and shot toward it with a speed that grew and almost defied the sound barrier.
"I'm coming Niy," she thought. "I can feel you're despair and I'm coming."