Chapter 11
Floran wakes up from a good sleep. Floran moves, and notice that there's no pain anymore, that red pack thing really helped Floran heal. Floran sits up, and stretches, Floran really needed to sleep, it was a rough day. Floran still wishes that Idalla was here, but knowing her, she would scold Floran for wasting time being sad. Now that Floran is better, Floran looks around the room, and everything looks so strange. The walls, ceiling, and the floor are made of metal. Floran looks up, and sees something bright on the ceiling, which is so strange because Floran can't see any fire in it. Floran sees a table nearby, it has a box with a green line on top of it, a bag with some strange liquid, and little glass tubes with other strange liquids. There are other beds in the room, but that's not important right now. The important thing is that Floran doesn't see a door, but there is a part a wall that looks suspicious. Floran gets up from bed, and walks up to the strange looking are of the wall. When Floran gets close enough, the wall opens up on its own, like magic.
Floran leaves the room and see various corridors, one going straight, three on the left side, and two on the right side. Floran starts to walk forward, and looks inside each of the corridors. They all seem to reach a dead end, but since the other wall opened, those dead ends might open too. Floran doesn't know where to go, so Floran simply starts to go through each wall. The first one seems to have tables with chairs, and on the corner has another table with strange metal boxes. The next one had a strange, round blue table, a metal box with a bright ball inside of it, and tables with weapons. Floran never got a gun before, but Floran has seen other hunters with a rifle. The third room had a little table with a transparent blue paper, and a metal bench with tools, like a hammer and some weird looking tools. The fourth room has a gray box, with dirty on top of it, and some weird tubes dropping water on some plants. There are other plants around the room, some with different fruits and vegetables. The fifth room was small and empty. The last room is where Floran finds Yuki sitting on a chair, in front of a table with a lot of little lights, and a window looking into space. She hears the wall open and looks over her shoulder to see Floran.
"Hello, Seba, did you sleep well?" asks Yuki with a smile. She doesn't look as tired as before, which makes Floran happy.
"Yes, Floran slept well, but Floran is confused with all of this," says Floran while waving at everything around Floran.
"I can imagine that. After all, this is your first time traveling inside a spaceship."
"Floran feels like Floran is in a completely different world, with walls opening on their own, strange lights, and weird liquids."
"If that's strange to you, just wait until we reach home." After she says that, we hear a strange sound, and a voice.
"You have arrived to your destination," says the strange voice.
"Who's that?" Asks Floran.
"That's just S.A.I.L, the ship's A.I."
"Where is he?" Yuki giggles, and Floran doesn't know why.
"He's not real, he's just a program." Floran gets answer, but the answer is just another confusing thing.
"What's a program?"
"It's a…science thing." That answer made more sense than anything else. "Anyways, we're here." Floran looks out the window, and sees a planet. At least, that's what Floran thinks is a planet, Floran remembers Idalla talking about planets and how different they are.
"This whole planet is your home."
"Well, no. You could say that my tribe lives somewhere in this planet." Now she's speaking in a way Floran understands.
"So, where's your tribe?"
"Let me show you," says Yuki. She moves something in her hands, and the spaceship moves towards the planet. Floran thought that Yuki would smash the spaceship on the giant planet, but it didn't. Floran can see that we were far from the planet, we were up in the sky, and a large sea was below us. Floran would have put face on the window, but the weird table was in the way. There isn't much land, just little spots of sand, with few weird trees that Floran has never seen.
"Your tribe lives in one of this little spots of land?" asks Floran because Floran can't believe that a tribe could live in these small spots of land.
"Oh no, we don't live on land," says Yuki and it confuses Floran.
"Then, where does your tribe live?"
"We live underwater." Floran looks at Yuki.
"What?" Yuki moves the thing in her hands, and the spaceship goes straight into the sea. "Wait! Floran has never been in this much water!" The goes so fast, by the time Floran finished saying that, the spaceship was swallowed by water. Floran was scared that water would get into the ship, and looked at Yuki, who was calm. Floran starts looking around, and notice that water wasn't getting into the spaceship.
"It's okay, water can't get into the ship."
"You could have said that before Floran got scared."
"Sorry, I forgot that this would be your first time underwater." After Yuki said that, we hear a voice coming from the weird table.
"This is the Control Center of Hirakawa City, identify yourself, over." Floran doesn't know who that is, but sounds important.
"This is Team Alpha C-43, requesting permission to land, over." Floran didn't understand any of that because Floran doesn't know what alpha is, or why is necessary to ask permission to land.
"Identity confirmed, you are granted permission to land. Welcome back, over." Floran has questions.
"Who was that? Where did the voice come from? Is someone inside this table?" Floran thought of pressing something, but changed mind.
"It's science, very complicated, and we don't really have much time for this," says Yuki, pushes some buttons, and leaves her seat.
"Why?" Floran asks.
"It won't take long for the ship to reach the city, and there will be guards inside the hangar. I have to prepare a way to get you inside undetected." Yuki walks into the main corridor, and Floran follows behind her.
"Do you need Floran's help?" We enter the small, empty room.
"Don't worry, it's nothing complicated." Yuki presses some button on the wall, the door closes, and the small room starts to move. When the room stops moving, the door opens, and there's a really big room, full of boxes of different sizes. Yuki walks up to a big box, and Floran follows behind her. When Floran reach Yuki, she turns towards Floran.
"Seba, I want you to know that everything is okay, and is going to be okay. If something happens, don't make any sudden movements, and let me do the talking, understand?" Says Yuki. She looks serious, and worried.
"Floran trusts you, and knows that you're very smart. Floran is going to follow your instructions without hesitation because Floran is sure that your plan is going to work," says Floran, and Yuki smiles. Floran wasn't lying, Floran trusts Yuki very much, so Floran is sure that Floran is going to love whatever plan Yuki has.