“Come on! Let’s go please you said the Celadon Hanging gardens orbiting Cinquefoil 5b are the best in the universe.” Cearo tries the puppy face. I sigh. I picked her up on the Pandora orbital base after I accidently broke her only way home. Oops. I owed her so I decided that before I dropped her off back at earth I could show her around, let her see the universe. That was five years ago.
She smiles at me, she know that sigh. “You know Seyvillete was super fun, I have never seen a place with diamond beaches. It was so beautiful, and when we went to Anathema…” she trails off into happy humming.
The Masch moves slowly through space and time as I put in our destination. I feel the time shift and speed up as we slip into the vortex. Cearo looks at me. I raise my eyebrows, she has been traveling with me for long enough I figured I should teach her to feel time shifts. “Did we just go into the vortex?”
I grin “Yes we did, currently we are traveling at one hundred years per second and one billion light years per second so we should arrive at the Celadon Hanging gardens orbiting Cinquefoil 5b right about ….. Now.” I turn and flip dials and levers to make sure we land alright, Cearo opens the door and jumps out.
“Hum it’s a lot darker than I expected… and it does not have that…..” I don’t listen as I make sure the Masch is doing alright for some reason it will not let me put on the breaks. I turn “hey maybe –“the Masch gets slammed to the side by something. I see dark vines whipping through the air at Cearo before the Masch goes into auto protection mode and phases out of existence straight into the Vortex. I scramble forward to close the doors before my existence is spread around all of time and space. I sprint back to the control board and send the Masch back to… where ever that was. The Masch lands I rip open the doors knowing by instinct that several hours have passed I hear someone crashing through the plant matter that litters the ground…..
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