Timeless Monarch: Astora

Chapter 6

Astora and #722114 stood in the 2nd largest docking transport terminal on the New Prairie space station in the Messier 28 Cluster Star system. Astora was grateful to the Monarchs for inventing artificial gravity. If she spent too much time unaffected by it, then her muscles would start to atrophy due to the microgravity of space. The Monarchs invented several new Elements on the Periodic Table for Humans to navigate space more effectively. The plates inside the flooring of all spacecraft have those elements within them. Astora never looked too deeply into it, but 722114 had asked her about it, which prompted Astora to do some research; curiosity was a core element of his personality.

Astora had her transmitter send a message back to her Covenant leaders in the Sol System. Andrea and Lucy, the only other ranked members, quickly responded and requested that they meet the boy. Andrea, the Prime Master and the highest-ranking person in their group, loved meeting any new recruits as soon as possible. Master Lucy, Astora's direct teacher and Andrea's direct successor, would be more excited to meet Astora's new protege; she never liked Astora's last student much. #722114 will be Astora's progeny, her Vaunt. When he is initiated, one vertical line will be painted under his eye daily. He represents their Gry covenant. The eye paint will be his uniform, reflecting his rank until the day he dies.

(RANK STRUCTURE OF ASTORA'S GRY COVENANT, HIGHEST TO LOWEST // Prime Master // MASTER // ACONITE // VAUNTOther Gry Covenant practitioners have more than one person for every level. It truly depends on the tradition. Some may have different names for the same thing; it varies from culture to culture, organization to organization. They have other families that are adjacent to them, and they are called Cousin Covenants.)

Astora had started staring off into space, looking for the Transport ship that her pilots would be operating. She was waiting on the outskirts of the docking port, a place where she could see outside into space. The way the space station hummed and moved. Creeked and swayed, it always relaxed her. For others, it made them nauseous. Astora was glad the Kid wasn't like that; imagine a killer protege that got motion sickness. Now that would suck.

After a few minutes, Astora saw a medium-sized vessel slowly creak into view. Only a few, if any, ships docked on the New Prairie space station. So Astora knew it had to be them.

A few minutes passed, and #722114 and Astora watched them smoothly dock and lock their ship to the hangar. The ship started to get affected by the artificial gravity, and once the hanger door shut, the area around the ship was repressurized. The spacecraft's docking mouth opened up, and 7222114 had his mouth open in awe. For some reason, he was always really excited to meet new people. Astora wasn't feeling the same way.

She liked their ship, though; it was a classy black, blue, and golden orange affair. The blue and gold accented the finer details of the ship, and most of the Spaceship looked custom. It was built well, but it was not at all an amateurish job. It had a long center fuselage that housed what looked like the primary flight control area and hab area. (habs are habitation areas or rooms on a spacecraft.) Then, two other fuselages were attached to the left and right of the ship, and the wings were retracted for space docking and travel. So, it was a roomy terrestrial-to-space vehicle. Those were costly. Astora planned to buy one herself when she got the chance.

Once Astora felt like she had stared long enough, the first person made their way down the ramp of their Spaceship. Astora couldn't distinguish their gender, but she could tell they were the most beautiful person she had ever seen. Their hair was blonde, and their skin was f8c07e. They looked like the pictures of the old Solomon Island people from ancient Earth. Their eyes were so burgundy brown they almost looked red. Everything about them seemed nearly too perfect; this effect this person had on Astora immediately made her uncomfortable and weary.Was Astora really about to look at this person using the Gray to see if her wanting to fuck them silly was a trick? Of course, this had never happened to her before, and she knew something like that feeling was too unnaturally powerful to just be NOTHING but hormones.With the gray guiding her, she saw through the haze of beauty and still saw a decently attractive blond human-not a god. So it was a trick. Why did that happen? Was this some kind of trick some humans can use? Hazy of sexy?!