Author: This part is sliiiightly irrelevant to the whole story but some things are a little necessary; which is why this is so short!
Chapter Four
Earth, a small town on the outskirts of the Sonoran desert.
A younger man was waiting with an older woman at the local police station; Femka's mother and her friend Alexander.
"It's been almost five days, since I've seen my daughter. She always rides that pathway, always. How can you tell me that you haven't found her? You've sent search and rescue, haven't you?"
She seemed irate and distraught. The man in front of her tried to calm her down. It didn't seem to do much good for the worried mother.
"Ma'am, we've said before. We're going to keep looking for her until we find her. There are endless possibilities to what may have happened to your daughter out in the desert," he explained. "The only thing we were able to find was a pair of glasses and a bike."
The mother put her hand over her forehead and eyes partially. She didn't want to think of what could have happened to her. It could've been anything. A wild animal could've attacked her, she could've fallen into a chasm, anything! But what the police couldn't explain were the markings around where her glasses were. Something definitely looked like it crashed there. And around her things was the purple and blue powder from the rock that exploded. And then the light. Silly as it was, some people speculated "alien abduction". That was the first thing to be dismissed. There were no such things as aliens. Though, people clearly saw a ship crashing through the atmosphere and then leaving it again. Satellites captured the images.
"Don't worry, Mrs. N.," Alexander said. "She'll turn up soon."
The poor woman just sighed heavily through her mouth. She tried hard not to cry but she couldn't hold back the tears. Her daughter was nowhere in sight. She'd been spirited away with no trace of her location.
The two left the station after being promised yet again that the search would continue later in the afternoon. Alexander parted ways with Femka's mother to head back to his own residence. It was weird. He couldn't help but think of reasons for her disappearance that seemed a bit asinine. But Femka vanished when the light happened. He sent her a text as it was happening. But… Then again… She didn't respond to his earlier message either. Alexander moved his glasses up his nose as he walked. He felt sick just thinking about reasons why she didn't answer her phone. When the thought of her being dead crossed his mind he almost cried. But he wouldn't let that happen. He wouldn't believe that she was just dead. She was somewhere and she was alive. He felt it—or so he thought.
"Where in the world are you, Fem?" he said to himself and took a look at his phone one last time under her name.
Still no messages.
"Wherever you are, come home soon…"