"Uuughhhh, this Oxy-Chew gets worse with every chew!" Celaeno grumbled as she shoved some of the Spear of Selene's part around. Ten years. TEN YEARS she'd been trying to get home, and all she could remember was what did NOT work.
~~Flashback 1~~
"I'll skyrocket myself home!" Celaeno said, picking up the makeshift "jet-pack" Strapping it on, she ran forward.
"NA NA NA NA NNAAA NAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" she went from singing to screaming when her attemp failed, and she landed flat on her face, scratching her cheak.
~~End flashback 1~~
Celaeno put her had to her wounded cheek. The slash was healing, but the pain was still there. But nothing stung worse then knowing she missed ten years of her friends' lives.
She turned to the chalk-bored in her shelter and marked another line on it. Turning on her transmitter, which she'd repaired long ago. She looked at it and began to speak.
"Ten years..." she started.
"I'm so sorry I've been gone this long. I really don't know if I can fix this...Or get home at all. Are you even receiving these transmitions? It's been so long now so I really do not know..."
Wiping a tear aside, she spoke again.
"I'll send these when I can...Just know, I will not stop trying to get home. I miss you all so much. Della, if you get this...Tell your family I love them. Tell your kids I'm glad you're all together."
Celaeno turned off the transmitter. She smacked her head onto the dashbored and started to cry, for the fifth time that week. She looked up at the family photograph that was taped in front of her.
And then, she looked down at the alien-bone peg leg she had made for herself.
"What do I do..."