Elementals Book 1: Of Fire and Ice
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