Being the dysfunctional crew that we are we waited 'till the last minute to
get ready for the meeting. Me and Tyr were fully dressed watching Beka,
Harper and Trance get dressed in a rushed fury. Harper scurried around the
room on his short little legs looking for his left shoe while Beka
struggled to manage her hair. Trance was still trying to figure out what to
wear much to everyone's aggravation, Everyone except Harper. It was amazing
watching those two interact. If it had been anyone else taking that long to
choose an outfit Harper would have blown up but he had the patience of Job
when it came to Trance.
"Harper how about this one?" Trance said holding up an outfit that looked almost identical to the others she had pulled out for Harper's inspection.
"You look sparkly and hot in all of your outfits Trance. Especially that one." He said she smiled and skipped to the bathroom to put it on. I walked over and grabbed Harper's shoulder.
"You're a good man Harper."
"Well, I try." He smiled finally finding his shoe and slipping it on. He smiled proudly.
"Ta Da.the Harper is smooth." He said reaching up to adjust the tie that wasn't there.
"Crap" he said with a tired frown and started searching again. I rolled my eyes and Tyr growled.
"I need some air." He said with frustration and left the room. I was thinking about leaving with him but I knew Harper would probably stop looking, pull out a sparky and go to sleep if I didn't keep my eye on him. He finally found his tie under the bed and struggled to put it on.I walked up behind him without thinking and started to adjust his tie but he wrenched away from me much to my surprise. He whirled around and his blue pools fell into this endearing doe-like, child-like, puppy dog-like look that made my stomach drop.
"I can do it Dylan." He said angrily. Before I could say anything Beka walked in looking absolutely beautiful. She smiled brightly showing all her teeth..
"You don't have to say it .I know." She said full of conceit. I rolled my eyes but she did look damn good. She wore a fitting blue dress that was cut too low for a function like this but I'd be damned if I were to complain.
"Oh Beka! Dance! Too much booty in the pants. dance! Too much booty in the pants." he sung loudly and Beka turned around shaking her quite shapely butt lively. I blushed and scratched my head in disbelief. Hmmm a booty shaking first officer? Suddenly I got an image of my former first officer shaking his butt in her place. I stifled a laugh and then a bone rattling shudder. I looked over to watched Harper laugh enthusiastically singing the song with all his heart and clapping in time. I wished that I could have a relationship that close. As close as Harper was to Trance and beka, having had lost my family and everyone I had ever known 300 years ago I felt isolated and lonely. Being the captain prohibited me from being that close because when push comes to shove I would make the decisions that could cost them there lives. Beka hiked up her skirt dipping down a few times which only made Harper cheer louder. Trance poked her head out of the bathroom and clapped the rhythm. They were an amazing family unit the three of them. They fought one minute and had moments like these the next. I wished that I could somehow weasel my way into there family, some how become there adopted child but they all held me at arms length. Especially Harper, I couldn't understand why he was so leery of me. Always trying to get away from me, sneaking out of rooms and finding things to do during off time. Now that I think about me and Harper have never really talked. I saw him wrench away angrily in my mind. Why was I even trying to fix his tie? Why did I even think that was appropriate? Was it because I thought of him as a son? All of a sudden all of my inner turmoil made me recent there happyness, especially Harper's.
"Alright, alright.we've got a meeting to get to." I said. I was being a little petty.well very petty but my excuse was that we really did have a meeting to get to.
"Party pooper" Harper said doing the finishing touches to his tie. I was a party pooper. I think mainly it was because Harper's singing was hurting my ears and I couldn't get the image of Rhade shaking his butt singing 'dance to much booty in the pants'. I shuddered openly which got everyones attention.
"Dylan are you ok?" Beka said adjusting her dress so even more cleavage was showing.
"Yeah just .Don't ask. Are we ready to go?"
"I told you I can do it." Harper said nodding in satisfaction. The tie was crooked and wrinkled but I didn't say anything. I just nodded and started for the door. Trance walked out the bathroom looking stunning as usual. Harper held out his arm and Trance hooked hers with his. She giggled which only made harpers smile grow. Then an unfamiliar and distant look swept over his face.
"You know I was always told never to second guess a good thing. But doesn't it just seem like we are having too much fun and things are just going to well?" Harper said looking around the room at the luxuries then looking down at his clothes.
"Something has to come along to ruin." Harper said and I could see his good mood slipping away.
"Harper stop.Just have fun ok?" Trance said with a frown that grew into a smile. I could tell she was encouraging him to smile with her which didn't work very well. Was this the end of jovial Harper? It looked like it sadly. His mood changed so quickly it was amazing. How does he function like this? Trance straightened his tie and continued to smile hoping he'd pick it up.maybe even try to smile himself.
"After the meeting are you gonna show me how to make a snowman?" Trance continued trying to prompt a smile.
"Umm.yeah probably" He said which I've learned meant no in Harper lingo. Trance's smile faded a little, I guess she knew the Harper lingo too. We continued down the hall picking up Tyr along the way. The building was huge so we had a good walk ahead of us but I didn't mind. The art and sculptors that littered the hallways were exquisite. I felt like I was in a museum. The multicolored walls were painted with colors that under normal circumstances wouldn't match but some how did here. The huge cascading windows gave us a view of the winter wonderland outside. It had been snowing for 7 hours and there wasn't a green thing left in sight. It as like someone had taken an eraser and erased all the color leaving just the outlines. The snow was considerably high and I worried slightly about the snow but the rollan people insisted that they had provisions in place if the snow became too much. The wind blew the powdery snow into beautiful tornado like spirals. I looked back to see Harper lagging behind staring out the window, tugging at his tie uncomfortably. His face was neutral but he seemed extremly subdued. Like he was on some sort of drug.
"Hey Tyr, love the outfit.it's sorta says 'I'm dignified but I'll still cut you'." Beka said looking at his suit and the holster holding his knife that was strapped to his thigh. I hadn't noticed it, it was hidden by his coat but slightly visible when he took a step. Tyr growled at Beka and looked at me.
"I am not entering a room with the Drago Katsov without some means to defend myself." He said sternly. He crossed his arms and tightened his lips.
"Tyr, you know there are no weapons allowed in the diplomatic chamber." I held out my hand and he growled fiercly and then looked away.
"Do I really have to say it?" I said a little frustrated. Tyr knew the rules and we had already discussed our deal. If he helps me out and doesn't beat anyone up he can have a slipfighter.
"Fine, but when we all die I'll be sure to say I told you so with my last dieing breath." Tyr shoved the knife in my hand and walked off angrily. I sighed and Beka walked up beside me.
"You know he's right. If the Drago Katsov find a way to smuggle in a weapon we are all toast."
"If you think Tyr was right then why did you tell on him?" I said a little confused. I was happy she told me but it wasn't her style to snitch.
"Ha.If I can't bring a weapon in then he can't"
"What?" She said when she saw the dumbfounded look I gave her. and I thought I was petty...
"Hey that's only fair. But he was still right for wanting to bring in a weapon.no one is more conniving then the Drago."
"I know don't worry like always I have a plan." I walked off leaving Beka wondering. I so enjoyed doing that.
We finally made it to the chamber and I walked up to see a very tense Tyr, quietly standing next to the door. He breathed in deeply and then turned to me reluctantly.
"Metal detector." He said promptly reaching into his jacket and pulling out another knife. Then he reached around to the back of his pants and pulled out a mini gun and lastly he lifted up his pant leg and pulled out a knife and another mini gun strapped to his leg. He put them all in my hands and we stared at each other. He cleared his throat.
"I don't like the Drago Katsov." He said reluctantly and then strolled in. I looked back at Beka,Trance and Harper who was just as shocked as I was.
"You can never say the man isn't prepared." Harper said walking in behind Tyr. He walked stiffly and awkwardly with his hands jammed deep in his pockets. I just watched him walk in looking totally out of character. Beka walked past me strutting like usual and Trance lingered back with me.
"He'll be alright. This is just stressful with this world looking like earth before the magog and drago came. It just looks like everything is starting over again." She took the weapons from my hand.
"Just tell them I'm sick and couldn't make it to the meeting.I'll take these weapons back to the Andromeda so we won't get caught with them." Trance started to walk off with the assortment of weapons and I called after her.
"Do you think I should talk to him?" I said. Not sure I should have asked her that question. Not sure if I sounded to unsure of myself or too desperate for a close friend. Why did I want Harper as a friend? Why not Tyr or Beka? Why not Trance?
"That's up to you Dylan. Just remember that Harper is Harper." She said without turning around. She continued down the hall and her skin tone matched some parts of the walls exactly making her seem to disappear at times. Her tail drug behind her and she scurried along hoping none of the inhabitance would catch her in the hallway with weapons.. I looked back into the room and watched Harper and Beka idly chit chat. Harper stared at the table linen as if it was some priceless jewel. He picked at it randomly. I sighed and walked in which made all three of the Rollan dignitaries stand and bow in a show of respect. I bowed back and sat next to Harper at the table. He looked up at me quickly and gave me his famous lopsided grin and then looked back down at the table. The Rollan people were a peculiar looking race. They were a greenish yellow color with pale green eyes. They reminded me of green grass and I realized that there color helped them to blend into there environment. Maybe not this wintery one but the sunny one from this morning. Their voices were slightly distorted as if they were underwater. And all of there gestures and manorisims were truly alien to me. I had seen many races but they were so different in so many ways. Normal movements like nodding or waving meant nothing to them.I was prepared for this meeting to run extremely long.
2 hours into the meeting all the members of my crew were getting extremely restless. Harper leaned back in his chair childishly and I squinted at him which made him wince and return to staring at the table cloth. Beka had taken 5 bathroom brakes, each one seeming to last much longer then the last. The Drago had shown up late as usually walking in with an hier of superiority. They sat across from us all 5 of them. The Than representitive, Noon, sat beside Beka watching our exchange of words intentively. She hadn't said anything the whole meeting. Harper found her interesting staring at her every now and then and then whispering to beka which made her giggle. I knew they weren't Highguard and lacked some dicipline but I knew they could do better then this.
"I don't see why you are even listening to the commonwealth. You told them that you wanted to hear from a family unit and they send you this obviously unrelated crew of misfits." Remoir said caustically. He was the leader, the alpha, the big cheese. He sat leasurly eyeing Tyr and shaking his head disaprovingly. The tension was rising and my enternal clock was counting down to the moment when all hell was gonna break loose. Either Harper was gonna scream at the top of his lungs pulling off his tie and throwing it to the ground in a huff before storming out. Or Tyr would throw over the table and attempt to gouge Romir's eyes out in a big display of neitzchean testosteron. I imagined both senerio's and realized that sadly they were both possible. The Rollan leader, Chakra stared at me and I realized I had missed something. He decided to speak for me obviously tired of waiting for me to get my head out of the clouds. Damn...strike one.
"I have spoken to Captain Dylan Hunt about this matter and he assures me that they are a family. Not all families are blood linked. Here on Rollanard It's not uncommon for a family to adopt the less fortunante" Commander Chakra said. He looked over with his pale green eyes and landed on harper. I felt sorry for Harper all of a sudden, It seemed like everyone could see his weaknesses and never his strengths. Harper smiled it off waving condescendingly. I grabbed his hand before it became his infamous one finger salute. Harper might have been viewed as an "inferior or unfortunant being" but he wasn't inferior when it came to insults. I knew that getting Harper wound up would surely get us all in a lot of trouble.
"You seem preoccupied Captain Dylan Hunt. Is something the matter?" Chakra said getting a sarcastic murmur from both Harper and all 5 neitzcheans. I saw a purple glimmer in the door way and excused myself willingly. Whispering in Harper's ear about protocol and how i'd take every sparky cola in the room and throw it out the window if he messed up this meeting I got up and left. I knew I was being hard on him and looking back I could see some dark recentment in his big blue eyes. I walked into the hallway to find Trance.
"Thank you for getting me out of that meeting." I said leaning heavily against the the wall.
"Umm. Your welcome but I don't think your going to be to happy for to much longer." She said biting her lip and rubbing her foot on the back of her other leg.
"Why? What's going on?
"Have you seen outside lately?"
"Ummm.no.The chamber doesn't have any windows."
"Come with me." She pulled me along and I followed without hesitation. I've learned that if there's something this little purple wonder wants to show me I'd be a damned idiot not to go.
"You see.I can't get to the Maru. I can't get rid of the weapons. I hid them in the room but I don't' think that's a safe place." She said as we rounded the corner and I gasped. I couldn't see out of the windows. The snow had completely engolfed every inch of the huge 10 foot windows and we were on the second floor. I was baffled that in two hours the snow had tripled. I didn't know what to say and my first reaction was to panick and run for an exit. I was the kinda guy who had to see for himself.
"I asked one of the local inhabitance and he said that this happens every year and we won't be able to go anywhere for a couple of weeks. We're stuck here Dylan!" Trance said tapping on the window. Suddenly the snow didn't look so beautiful to her.
"Calm down Trance. Chakra told me that there are things in place for times like these. I'm sure there is a way to get off this planet." I said unable to tear my eyes away from what I had at one point thought was amazing. All of a sudden I hated snow.
To Be Continued.
"Harper how about this one?" Trance said holding up an outfit that looked almost identical to the others she had pulled out for Harper's inspection.
"You look sparkly and hot in all of your outfits Trance. Especially that one." He said she smiled and skipped to the bathroom to put it on. I walked over and grabbed Harper's shoulder.
"You're a good man Harper."
"Well, I try." He smiled finally finding his shoe and slipping it on. He smiled proudly.
"Ta Da.the Harper is smooth." He said reaching up to adjust the tie that wasn't there.
"Crap" he said with a tired frown and started searching again. I rolled my eyes and Tyr growled.
"I need some air." He said with frustration and left the room. I was thinking about leaving with him but I knew Harper would probably stop looking, pull out a sparky and go to sleep if I didn't keep my eye on him. He finally found his tie under the bed and struggled to put it on.I walked up behind him without thinking and started to adjust his tie but he wrenched away from me much to my surprise. He whirled around and his blue pools fell into this endearing doe-like, child-like, puppy dog-like look that made my stomach drop.
"I can do it Dylan." He said angrily. Before I could say anything Beka walked in looking absolutely beautiful. She smiled brightly showing all her teeth..
"You don't have to say it .I know." She said full of conceit. I rolled my eyes but she did look damn good. She wore a fitting blue dress that was cut too low for a function like this but I'd be damned if I were to complain.
"Oh Beka! Dance! Too much booty in the pants. dance! Too much booty in the pants." he sung loudly and Beka turned around shaking her quite shapely butt lively. I blushed and scratched my head in disbelief. Hmmm a booty shaking first officer? Suddenly I got an image of my former first officer shaking his butt in her place. I stifled a laugh and then a bone rattling shudder. I looked over to watched Harper laugh enthusiastically singing the song with all his heart and clapping in time. I wished that I could have a relationship that close. As close as Harper was to Trance and beka, having had lost my family and everyone I had ever known 300 years ago I felt isolated and lonely. Being the captain prohibited me from being that close because when push comes to shove I would make the decisions that could cost them there lives. Beka hiked up her skirt dipping down a few times which only made Harper cheer louder. Trance poked her head out of the bathroom and clapped the rhythm. They were an amazing family unit the three of them. They fought one minute and had moments like these the next. I wished that I could somehow weasel my way into there family, some how become there adopted child but they all held me at arms length. Especially Harper, I couldn't understand why he was so leery of me. Always trying to get away from me, sneaking out of rooms and finding things to do during off time. Now that I think about me and Harper have never really talked. I saw him wrench away angrily in my mind. Why was I even trying to fix his tie? Why did I even think that was appropriate? Was it because I thought of him as a son? All of a sudden all of my inner turmoil made me recent there happyness, especially Harper's.
"Alright, alright.we've got a meeting to get to." I said. I was being a little petty.well very petty but my excuse was that we really did have a meeting to get to.
"Party pooper" Harper said doing the finishing touches to his tie. I was a party pooper. I think mainly it was because Harper's singing was hurting my ears and I couldn't get the image of Rhade shaking his butt singing 'dance to much booty in the pants'. I shuddered openly which got everyones attention.
"Dylan are you ok?" Beka said adjusting her dress so even more cleavage was showing.
"Yeah just .Don't ask. Are we ready to go?"
"I told you I can do it." Harper said nodding in satisfaction. The tie was crooked and wrinkled but I didn't say anything. I just nodded and started for the door. Trance walked out the bathroom looking stunning as usual. Harper held out his arm and Trance hooked hers with his. She giggled which only made harpers smile grow. Then an unfamiliar and distant look swept over his face.
"You know I was always told never to second guess a good thing. But doesn't it just seem like we are having too much fun and things are just going to well?" Harper said looking around the room at the luxuries then looking down at his clothes.
"Something has to come along to ruin." Harper said and I could see his good mood slipping away.
"Harper stop.Just have fun ok?" Trance said with a frown that grew into a smile. I could tell she was encouraging him to smile with her which didn't work very well. Was this the end of jovial Harper? It looked like it sadly. His mood changed so quickly it was amazing. How does he function like this? Trance straightened his tie and continued to smile hoping he'd pick it up.maybe even try to smile himself.
"After the meeting are you gonna show me how to make a snowman?" Trance continued trying to prompt a smile.
"Umm.yeah probably" He said which I've learned meant no in Harper lingo. Trance's smile faded a little, I guess she knew the Harper lingo too. We continued down the hall picking up Tyr along the way. The building was huge so we had a good walk ahead of us but I didn't mind. The art and sculptors that littered the hallways were exquisite. I felt like I was in a museum. The multicolored walls were painted with colors that under normal circumstances wouldn't match but some how did here. The huge cascading windows gave us a view of the winter wonderland outside. It had been snowing for 7 hours and there wasn't a green thing left in sight. It as like someone had taken an eraser and erased all the color leaving just the outlines. The snow was considerably high and I worried slightly about the snow but the rollan people insisted that they had provisions in place if the snow became too much. The wind blew the powdery snow into beautiful tornado like spirals. I looked back to see Harper lagging behind staring out the window, tugging at his tie uncomfortably. His face was neutral but he seemed extremly subdued. Like he was on some sort of drug.
"Hey Tyr, love the outfit.it's sorta says 'I'm dignified but I'll still cut you'." Beka said looking at his suit and the holster holding his knife that was strapped to his thigh. I hadn't noticed it, it was hidden by his coat but slightly visible when he took a step. Tyr growled at Beka and looked at me.
"I am not entering a room with the Drago Katsov without some means to defend myself." He said sternly. He crossed his arms and tightened his lips.
"Tyr, you know there are no weapons allowed in the diplomatic chamber." I held out my hand and he growled fiercly and then looked away.
"Do I really have to say it?" I said a little frustrated. Tyr knew the rules and we had already discussed our deal. If he helps me out and doesn't beat anyone up he can have a slipfighter.
"Fine, but when we all die I'll be sure to say I told you so with my last dieing breath." Tyr shoved the knife in my hand and walked off angrily. I sighed and Beka walked up beside me.
"You know he's right. If the Drago Katsov find a way to smuggle in a weapon we are all toast."
"If you think Tyr was right then why did you tell on him?" I said a little confused. I was happy she told me but it wasn't her style to snitch.
"Ha.If I can't bring a weapon in then he can't"
"What?" She said when she saw the dumbfounded look I gave her. and I thought I was petty...
"Hey that's only fair. But he was still right for wanting to bring in a weapon.no one is more conniving then the Drago."
"I know don't worry like always I have a plan." I walked off leaving Beka wondering. I so enjoyed doing that.
We finally made it to the chamber and I walked up to see a very tense Tyr, quietly standing next to the door. He breathed in deeply and then turned to me reluctantly.
"Metal detector." He said promptly reaching into his jacket and pulling out another knife. Then he reached around to the back of his pants and pulled out a mini gun and lastly he lifted up his pant leg and pulled out a knife and another mini gun strapped to his leg. He put them all in my hands and we stared at each other. He cleared his throat.
"I don't like the Drago Katsov." He said reluctantly and then strolled in. I looked back at Beka,Trance and Harper who was just as shocked as I was.
"You can never say the man isn't prepared." Harper said walking in behind Tyr. He walked stiffly and awkwardly with his hands jammed deep in his pockets. I just watched him walk in looking totally out of character. Beka walked past me strutting like usual and Trance lingered back with me.
"He'll be alright. This is just stressful with this world looking like earth before the magog and drago came. It just looks like everything is starting over again." She took the weapons from my hand.
"Just tell them I'm sick and couldn't make it to the meeting.I'll take these weapons back to the Andromeda so we won't get caught with them." Trance started to walk off with the assortment of weapons and I called after her.
"Do you think I should talk to him?" I said. Not sure I should have asked her that question. Not sure if I sounded to unsure of myself or too desperate for a close friend. Why did I want Harper as a friend? Why not Tyr or Beka? Why not Trance?
"That's up to you Dylan. Just remember that Harper is Harper." She said without turning around. She continued down the hall and her skin tone matched some parts of the walls exactly making her seem to disappear at times. Her tail drug behind her and she scurried along hoping none of the inhabitance would catch her in the hallway with weapons.. I looked back into the room and watched Harper and Beka idly chit chat. Harper stared at the table linen as if it was some priceless jewel. He picked at it randomly. I sighed and walked in which made all three of the Rollan dignitaries stand and bow in a show of respect. I bowed back and sat next to Harper at the table. He looked up at me quickly and gave me his famous lopsided grin and then looked back down at the table. The Rollan people were a peculiar looking race. They were a greenish yellow color with pale green eyes. They reminded me of green grass and I realized that there color helped them to blend into there environment. Maybe not this wintery one but the sunny one from this morning. Their voices were slightly distorted as if they were underwater. And all of there gestures and manorisims were truly alien to me. I had seen many races but they were so different in so many ways. Normal movements like nodding or waving meant nothing to them.I was prepared for this meeting to run extremely long.
2 hours into the meeting all the members of my crew were getting extremely restless. Harper leaned back in his chair childishly and I squinted at him which made him wince and return to staring at the table cloth. Beka had taken 5 bathroom brakes, each one seeming to last much longer then the last. The Drago had shown up late as usually walking in with an hier of superiority. They sat across from us all 5 of them. The Than representitive, Noon, sat beside Beka watching our exchange of words intentively. She hadn't said anything the whole meeting. Harper found her interesting staring at her every now and then and then whispering to beka which made her giggle. I knew they weren't Highguard and lacked some dicipline but I knew they could do better then this.
"I don't see why you are even listening to the commonwealth. You told them that you wanted to hear from a family unit and they send you this obviously unrelated crew of misfits." Remoir said caustically. He was the leader, the alpha, the big cheese. He sat leasurly eyeing Tyr and shaking his head disaprovingly. The tension was rising and my enternal clock was counting down to the moment when all hell was gonna break loose. Either Harper was gonna scream at the top of his lungs pulling off his tie and throwing it to the ground in a huff before storming out. Or Tyr would throw over the table and attempt to gouge Romir's eyes out in a big display of neitzchean testosteron. I imagined both senerio's and realized that sadly they were both possible. The Rollan leader, Chakra stared at me and I realized I had missed something. He decided to speak for me obviously tired of waiting for me to get my head out of the clouds. Damn...strike one.
"I have spoken to Captain Dylan Hunt about this matter and he assures me that they are a family. Not all families are blood linked. Here on Rollanard It's not uncommon for a family to adopt the less fortunante" Commander Chakra said. He looked over with his pale green eyes and landed on harper. I felt sorry for Harper all of a sudden, It seemed like everyone could see his weaknesses and never his strengths. Harper smiled it off waving condescendingly. I grabbed his hand before it became his infamous one finger salute. Harper might have been viewed as an "inferior or unfortunant being" but he wasn't inferior when it came to insults. I knew that getting Harper wound up would surely get us all in a lot of trouble.
"You seem preoccupied Captain Dylan Hunt. Is something the matter?" Chakra said getting a sarcastic murmur from both Harper and all 5 neitzcheans. I saw a purple glimmer in the door way and excused myself willingly. Whispering in Harper's ear about protocol and how i'd take every sparky cola in the room and throw it out the window if he messed up this meeting I got up and left. I knew I was being hard on him and looking back I could see some dark recentment in his big blue eyes. I walked into the hallway to find Trance.
"Thank you for getting me out of that meeting." I said leaning heavily against the the wall.
"Umm. Your welcome but I don't think your going to be to happy for to much longer." She said biting her lip and rubbing her foot on the back of her other leg.
"Why? What's going on?
"Have you seen outside lately?"
"Ummm.no.The chamber doesn't have any windows."
"Come with me." She pulled me along and I followed without hesitation. I've learned that if there's something this little purple wonder wants to show me I'd be a damned idiot not to go.
"You see.I can't get to the Maru. I can't get rid of the weapons. I hid them in the room but I don't' think that's a safe place." She said as we rounded the corner and I gasped. I couldn't see out of the windows. The snow had completely engolfed every inch of the huge 10 foot windows and we were on the second floor. I was baffled that in two hours the snow had tripled. I didn't know what to say and my first reaction was to panick and run for an exit. I was the kinda guy who had to see for himself.
"I asked one of the local inhabitance and he said that this happens every year and we won't be able to go anywhere for a couple of weeks. We're stuck here Dylan!" Trance said tapping on the window. Suddenly the snow didn't look so beautiful to her.
"Calm down Trance. Chakra told me that there are things in place for times like these. I'm sure there is a way to get off this planet." I said unable to tear my eyes away from what I had at one point thought was amazing. All of a sudden I hated snow.
To Be Continued.