Chapter Three - Junux

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I shot on to Terra in a flurry of bright, vibrant colours.
As soon as my feet touched the damp mud, I was so close to collapsing and I managed to scare a few strange animals that looked a bit like Lops who ran away across the muddy place I was in.
This place was dark and damp. Was this what all of Terra looked like? Will I not be able to see any of the ancient building that the humans made?
After a moment of dithering and uming and ahing, I decided I might as well explore a little bit to see if the whole world was dark and damp.
I walked forwards and came out into sunlight that was only a bit lighter than the darkness I had come out of.
I looked around myself and saw that I was in some kind of garden, or at least I thought I was. The grass was a brownish green colour and all the flowers had long gone.
Suddenly, something shot at me from out of nowhere and wrapped it's arms around me as a hug. I looked down to see what it was. It was a girl. A human girl. A cute human girl.
I screamed and struggled to detach her from my body.
"Why are you screaming?" The girl, who I have now decided to call Myope because of her glasses, asked, "I thought you would be happy to see that you're not the only one."
I gave her a confused look. Then it hit me, she thought I was another human.
"I'm not-" I began but Myope cut me off.
"Come inside," she said, "you look freezing! I'll get you a nice cup of tea or something, do you like tea?"
She pulled me inside the house and sat me down on a chair in the kitchen.
"Tea, coffee or hot chocolate?" She asked holding up three types of packaging that I guessed were related to what she was talking about.
It wouldn't hurt to try some Terran things, would it? I thought to myself and then said, "hot chocolate, please."
"Okay dokey!" Myope said and started to rush around the kitchen, gathering things for this 'hot chocolate'.
I looked around myself at how homely this kitchen looked and felt how warm it was. Then my eyes fell onto a notebook that was sat open on the table.
I leaned closer and looked at the words written down on it. Luckily one of the languages we had to learn to go on this trip was human so I could kinda read it.
It read:
Our lives are short and fleeting,
And in the end we fall.
Now I'm the last one standing,
There's no one-

"Here you go," Myope interuppted me reading the poem as she placed a mug of steaming brown liquid on the table in front of me.
I eyed it suspiciously before picking it up and bringing the mug to my lips. The hot liquid, which I assumed to be hot chocolate, entered my mouth and made my taste buds tingle; from the hot chocolate burning them or from the sweet taste that was in it.
I had soon drunk the whole mug and I put it down onto the table where the notebook had once been. Myope must've put it away.
"So," Myope began, "what's your name?"
"I'm Junux," I said and Myope raised an eyebrow, "what's yours?"
I silently hoped that what I was saying was right, I didn't want Myope to suddenly realise that I'm not human and  be disapointed and/or decide to kill me.
"I'm Cassandra, but you can call me Cass," she said.
What a strange name, I thought.
"So, what should we do now?" Myo- Cass asked.
In response, I just shrugged and smiled.

AN - Sorry for the late update, I was away all weekend and had no time to do anything, but I hope you're enjoying the story so far and I hope that you keep reading!
The poem is by I-AM-7437-LOCKED, thank you!

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