Where is home?

Chapter 2- The Farewell

There,I said having finished recording myself for the hologram  that we were going to leave on Atrora .I walked out of the room ,grabbed my oxygen mask and headed outside for the last time. At school I had learned that once Atrora had been a fertile,verdant ,inhabited by many beautiful species that once roamed her,with  a sky  that used to be of a celestial color,the sea turquoise and the clouds white.I would have adored to live on Atrora back in the day .Now all that was left was a mustard -colored sky which was almost completed covered up by dark grey masses of air,a completely murky sea polluted by all the plastic bags that floated up to the surface which had been responsable for the deaths of sealife and a rock barren soil which had been unable to harbor new seedlings of life for centuries.The only birds that flew in the sky were metallic ones and the only food we ate had been made in a laboratory.

      I sigh and  head towards the launch and command centre . There are only a few hours until we leave this barren land forever. The door scans my eyes as I remove my oxygen mask.I am met with a cool rapid of air as a blonde bird nest comes rushing towards me.

"Corra!Where have you been?You are being requested right now to check all the fuel supplies !

Alright I'm on my way Ryder,I'll catch up with you later".Don't get me wrong I love this guy to pieces ,he is my best friend,but he can really push my buttons.Thanks to our wonderful technology we somehow figured out how create to create lots of energy manipulating the uranium atoms in such a way that they can no longer contaminate us.To exit Atrora's atmosphere we only need a bit of it but we have no idea how long its going to take to find an exoplanet to inhabit ,therefore I need to make sure that we don't leave so much as an atom behind.

Several hours later...

I find myself in the chair of the ship ,basically all we have to do is think about how we want to fly by just sitting in it and we can  move it however we like,the catch is that you have to have some unique gene inherited from those who have extra-terrestral ancestors.They're the ones that created these chairs and a whole bunch of other developped things before they went back home.Anyway since I'm the highest ranked gene holder I get the privilege to steer the Aurora,the ship.

"Are the coordinates set Commander?I might have just forgotten one eensy teensy detail,Ryder is also my co-commander.

Yes telemetry's set as well,the old dustbucket's all ready to go!"

A woman starts to count down."TEN.NINE.EIGHT.SEVEN.SIX.FIVE.FOUR.THREE.TWO.ONE.AND WE HAVE LIFT-OFF! A round of cheers can be heard across the room.I set the ship to auto-control.

I look outside the windows and see a diminishing speck of yellow and grey slowly disappearing below us.

Ryder comes up to me with a glass of champagne and we clink our glasses together.

"So,Corra,he said rolling the r's on his tongue,how about a little kiss for doing so well?

Yeah ,I try to stifle a giggle,in your dreams Ryder!

But you know you want it he said wriggling his eyebrows suggestively while trying the push me on the wall.

Perv",I replied pushing him back.

I go back to looking at the at the dark fabric laying in front of us as I feel myself drifting away.

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