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Elementals Book 1: Of Fire and Ice

Chapter 2 Luca

Word Count: 1776    |    Released on: 31/12/2021

paceship was the sharp prick of a needle in the c

life before now either. She has flashes of memories leading up to

es. Morana knows she likes the color gray and enjoys tea over c

b, but I don't re

remember if she

what was going on, who we were, and explore the spacecr

idea wh

meeting mine. She finally stopped crying and

ver t

till foreign and impossible sounding, but why

eyes; a man in a white lab coat, something about my gene code, sha

vivid green eyes, but she was unfocused as if she wer

her arms wrapped around her legs, her eyes puffy and bloodshot. I sat with one leg out, one knee up, and my arm res

f I wa

o remember details like that, anything about what happened before, but my mind remained blank. "Then they kept taking me to this lab roo

ing up at her. "Are

dumbfounded, her

s, her voice getting quiet as

ng at the desert. "Th

her shoulders starting to shake. I breathe in deep,

did they tell you anything?" She

dryly. "I made up a planet based off a coke bottle

clothes I showed up in. I felt comfortable in them, and something

he asks softly. "Wh

e. "There are strange flashes, but I don't know what they

ears at me. I clench my hands into tight

ana mutters. "It

ehead. This was something else I was not familiar with. I watched as she re

. She dropped her gaze, choosing to

e says as an

o grab her hand to see what was wrong, but she

rself. After a moment of thinking, she flips her hand over revealing the blistered and red

k, looking at her hand and then back

landed, I tried to shake you

n. Nothing indicated that the skin

ming around her. From where she sat, frost seemed to encircle her, outlin

nic filling her gaze as she wrapped her arms around her legs yet again. With her disheve

ling helpless and lost. "But

y here in case they come back," She says, her eyes scanning the skies

get that?" I say, confused by the

do you kn

ve prank? There are three fucking suns!" I say, my voice rising. "There's a moon the size

angry with me," She says

coming back. They wouldn't have shipped us off to some fucking alien p

ent us here to see if it's inhabitable," Frost star

any form of supplies that would help us. We couldn't stay here any longer. We needed to get away from the spacecraft and sta

re you

s left my mouth, compartments on either wall slid open. I jump back,

d to find food rations, water, and medical supplies. I grabbed the first aid kit, rippin

and bandaged. We leav

he supplies. I sigh, hating the qu

ld," I say. "Is that a go

clean her hand. She hisses as the antiseptic comes into contact w

about pain, and based on how her han

times. I busy myself with taking inventory of the supplies in the backpack. I had food rations that would last me a week,

ea

k. Morana stands and straps her backpack on her own back, quiet as she did so. Her eye

a few moments, her green eyes settling on me. "We don't know

t it makes no sense to wake up on this planet expecting someone to come and get us. Why would they send us here in the first p

s here want us out on the planet, away from the spaceship, out in the unknown.

explain all of this to her when

truct com

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