~Gordie Gund, Class of 2024

“Well well well. What do we have he-uh.”

“Ow” “who are you?” “where am I?”

“I am kimlee” “who you”

“y name is paul.”

“Hi Hi, nice meet you.”

“Where am I?” 

“Dis Rænü B, welcome”

“How do you speak English, we are far from earth.”

“Translator technology”

“Incredible, are there many other people on your planet?”

“Not matter” “how you get here”

“I don’t know”

“What you mean you don’t know”

“I was cryogenically frozen” ‘I just woke up, my ship must have detected life and landed here”

“Yes, make sense””but where you ship”

“I’m… not sure. I just woke up”

“You bring friend with you?”

“I was on a big ship but I was frozen in a pod so I don’t know where they are” “we left in 2073 earth time, so 3.783e universal time.”

“3.783e?”

“Yes, I think so. What is the time now?”

“3.785e”

“Oh my god”

Big time”

“Yes, big time” “I have to find my ship, maybe there will be others there”

“There was something crashed back there last day”

“That must be the ship. Let’s go”

“Ok, we go”

                          30 minutes later

“I see it”

“That you, ship? Very nice”

“Thank you, but none of the lights are on” “maybe people are still frozen”

“Yes probably, lets go back now”

“Back? Why?”

“You found ship, nobody home”

Yell I should look inside, and I can’t stay here forever”

“You can”

“I need to go back to the mothership.”

“Why”

IIt’s my duty and I wouldn’t survive here the nitrogen level in the atmosphere is too high”

“I’m going in”

“Ok”

“Look, it works” “it’s turning on!”

Stop”

“What?”

“No leave” “you not leaving”

“Yes I am”

“No YOU DON’T. You never leave”