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Two hours later, The Rift slowed and drifted to their destination. There was a bright, fluctuating light emitting just out of Chel’s vision. She leaned forward trying to see better. “We’re here.” Lexx leaned back, waiting for Chel to see fully what he had brought her to look at. “Whoa,…” Chel inclined her head, amazed [...]
Chel watched in open mouthed awe as the ship was angled so that the entire viewer was filled with what looked remarkably like ocean waves with a golden mist encircling it. Large almost transparent shapes breached the surface and almost curiously encircled The Rift. They moved with the fluidity of energy, rays of color extending [...]
“I thought you might like it, since you like sunsets and this place is an eternal sunset.” Lexx commented, realizing that he was beginning to ramble unnecessarily. “It’s beautiful.” Chel didn’t want to blink and miss anything. It was so breathtaking to see the vapors darting in and out of the ‘clouds’ like some insane [...]
A thought wandered into Chel’s mind. “What about the vapors, Lexx? What happens to them when the sun,… dies?” She turned to him, having completely forgotten how angry she was. The Vapors had completely wiped that memory away. Now she wanted to know,… when that sun was gone, would they be gone as well? Lexx [...]
“They live a long time then, don’t they?” Chel considered that if they needed a sun to go nova to mature, then they’d have to be ancient. Stars last a long time. “Nobody knows.” Lexx navigated the ship further, enhancing the screen to display their next destination. “There’s a star going nova at every moment [...]
Chel grinned slightly. Now this would really be interesting. Lexx was taking her to an alien mall! She really wished she had some sort of acceptable money to get a souvenir to prove where she’d been, but just seeing it would be enough for now. He was really being nice,… so different from how he’d [...]
Lexx lead the way down one corridor, moving past various curious aliens. They seemed particularly interested in Chel. Humans were not a common sight, as a matter of fact, most of these creatures had not even heard of Earth. “Wow.” Chel was just as amazed by them. “Something wrong?” Lexx smirked slightly, keeping himself comfortably [...]
The four moved forward on a tiled path. The ‘sky’ if it could be called that, was unnaturally clear and the stars didn’t twinkle. Flashes of light from passing ships darted across the black of space; a constant reminder of where they were. The air had a strange overly fresh scent to it and made [...]
“Scan ID, Shira Lexx 21223Z21.” Lexx held his hand up to the little robot. From within the globe, red and orange lights flickered, processing the information and reading Lexx’s ID chip. “Verified.” A hollow mechanical voice echoed from inside the robot. “Scan records.” Lexx stated evenly and clearly. Porter robots had hundreds of thousands of [...]
Lexx took the two packages off the server. He unwrapped a pair of cups and handed one to Chel, putting the wrapping back on the porter. The porter sucked the wrapping inside a small opening and hovered off. Chel stared at the cup. It had a covering over the top that she couldn’t figure out [...]
