It wasn't like you hated your job. This was your dream: find a new planet, explore it and see what it has to give.
And yet when you sit in this water cave, alone with a sleeping NOMIA, you feel at ease.
Although the air's not as fresh as it is back at home, you feel like it's easier to breathe here.
It's like all of your duties and responsibilities no longer tie you down, because no one is here to monitor you for it. No matter how much discipline is embedded into you, these tasks were like weights on your chest.
[continue to Chapter 4: Astronaught [4] ]