A short story
Traveling Tales
Perspectives
Gesturing the group to continue the youngling began walking towards the pod and looked at it and expressed concern about how they all would fit inside. The alien laughed and took off his labcoat covering the pot and it seemed to disappear in to the coat, he told the group they would not fit in the pod all together so they would need to walk to his space ship. The space man seemed excited and the youngling as well. The duck with rizz kept his cool and nodded. Interestingly enough the cyborg followed them.
Having many conversations, the group of friends continued on. The space man talked about his many travels and missions, those of success and those of faliature. The youngling asked many questions and found it intriguing. The duck with rizz listened as he wondered around the bushes from time to time, keeping the pace and walking along side them. The cyborg would as well sporadically join in and expressed her insights. What a peculiar bunch.
Along the way they would cross paths with other friends, a duck, a maple tree, a tall sheep, a raven, an European swallow with two coconuts tied to each foot that follewed the raven around, even a squirrel joined them for a moment. Some would travel with them and some would continue separate ways.
The youngling noticed this and walked close to the alien, asking about why this would happen. He wondered why they couldn't all travel along side each other. The alien would think and think, and gave the youngling an answer.
He said life seemed to be this way. It was part of life. Yet this did not satisfied the younglings desire to keep traveling along side the ones he came to know.
The alien wanting to give the youngling a better answer slowed his pace and walked behind the group of friends, observing them, listening and trying to understand. Altho it was difficult he made an effort and tried and tried. He could not find an answer that was good enough. The alien realized humans where very complex, no matter how much time he spend with them he could not find the answer he was looking for.
The alien continued to walk taking a flower and crushing it in his hand. Making it to a paste he then took some water from a creek that they passed and mixed it with the paste. He poured the mixture in to a glass container he had in his pocket and took a hollow stick and placed it inside the glass container and drank the solution.
The alien thought no one noticed him do this, and he continued walking with the group. Then the space man asked the alien what did he thought about space, it was mostly empty, he explained, so the space man expressed that to him it didn't make sense to travel around the cosmos making new planets and stars. The alien smiled and began to explain that even tho that was true, most places where alone, those planets and stars had the potential to harvest life. As he explained this he blew many bubbles while speaking. They all laughed and stared at the bubbles...
To be continued...
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