Gold Morning **
Characters: Aximili
The first morning that I woke up on the surface of the Earth, I woke-up thinking that I was on my home world. The single sun was just rising at that point, coloring the sky gold and red-the exact colors of my sky during high noon. I felt the relief of awakening from a nightmare: My brother was still alive, and that I wasn't trapped on some alien planet, alone.
But as my eye stalks observed my surroundings, they told me that what I felt wans't at all true: Everything was green, and the sky right above me, peaking through the clouds, was pale blue in colors. I wasn't Home. The wall of homesickness hit me twice as hard than when I was in the dome. Even though I was surrounded by the Earth's ocean, I was safe in the dome, the one last connection to me and my people.
But it did give me a faint ray of hope. Every morning from then on, I got up just early enough to watch the sunrise, hoping that the sky would again look just like Home. For those few seconds I could lie to myself, and pretend like everything was the way it was before.
From the Journal of Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill