Granny's SETI Goblin

Going-Away Party

Dromie got up and bowed to that orange man. "King Goes, may I be a citizen of your kingdom, before we leave?" He shook all over.

His father bowed, too. "I would like to ask for all of us, before we go. Your kingdom hosted us."

Goes bowed. "Eae. You are all now citizens of MarKu. I am very sorry you cannot stay, but I will send a diplomat to be stationed diplomat of your world."

A young man came and bowed to King Goes. He had brown skin, like me! "I am happy to go with them, my liege! I am Lunares of Eae Funasah, and have nae family here." Like me, he had kinky, soft black hair.

Waved for my hair to be in big curls. Since Dromie healed me, it was black, not gray, but I still looked old in my face. I earned those lines. Might as well enjoy a little tech before I go back there. Hoped we could bring food!

Goes hugged the man. "Eae Funasah! You were away, when Eriganh came?"

"Eae, Liege, on a mission to Zhea~. Nae knows me, here." Poor fella looked sad.

"Will you be well, with nae kinsman near you? I wish to send a healer with you."

"I will go with him." A young orange man in white robes bowed, and Goes hugged him, too. "My family died on Pera, and I wish nae to stay here. Perhaps Father Of All brought me to Para today, because I visited Pera Prov and had much sorrow, nae to find a single relative. I am Songamar."

Lunares hugged him. "If you lived on Pera, perhaps you teach me how to live in a barren place. This lady thinks of her world, and her daughter dreads for her mea to go there!"

Dromie's Daddy took their hands. "We can make this world look like what you need. Now that we are citizens of MarKu, perhaps we can be a colony of it."

Scared people were all far away from us. Even Gwen took Luna off the huge commons between all the jewel-like buildings. Goes ran to a lady with a giant platter of pastries and ran it back to us. "I will declare a festival in your honor today. We prepare a ship with more pastries and candies, and Earthan foods. Also, a server installation. You shall have a Hub. Many volunteered to supply Lady Aine." A pretty amber ship, a saucer about the size of a van but round, landed on the Commons and people ran to it. Four people in blue uniforms walked to it and stood there.

Goes smiled. His brown curls waved in the flower-scented breeze. People kept bringing plants in clear globes to these men and they waved, and they vanished. Too many? "Lady, the plants are for your colony. There are many kinds for beauty, and food cultivation. You will have farms and a server for your needs, and to provide communication with your family."

I smiled. We won't be isolated, this time! Gave Dromie a hug.

He laid his head on my shoulder with a sigh. "Daddy, will you port us? I'm too tired."

"Anything for you, son!" I blinked, and we all stood in our yard. That ship, and the four fellas, appeared in the street! They startled!

The purple fella with the sash laughed. "Oh, we're here! Let me introduce my DS team! I am Fison Pinna, Diplomat Of Ka, Thorde, but you can call me Fis and this is Fis' Team. Uh, I'm Thordes, and we're the purple people in the Alliance. My world, Thorde, has tens of thousands of colonies. This is my Diplomat-In-Aid, Renapon, and he helps me explain things on missions. Any of us are glad to answer questions for you.

Renapon was a black Zheien who had blue-black skin and a short black afro. Bowed. "Berto asked us to come because you were thinking of your mother and she looks like me."

I nodded and hugged him. If I said anything, I'd cry!

The next fella had fire-engine red skin and four fingers and toes. He did a kind of tap dance with fast rhythms and landed in a bow from the waist, looking at me with his brown eyes. "I am Wanminae, Hub Engineer of V'chsan, and I will be overseeing the hub installation. What shall we call your new Hub? We are in the Outer Siva, in the farthest star from it. Thorde is our nearest trading partner, but we are very remote." He waved up a star map.