Sunrays and Moonbeams

A Planet

Seeing the blue with green bits planet in the distance we all startcheering and I can't help but let out happy laughter of my own. Afterso long it was finally coming true! We were finally here, I didn'tknow if this would be the land of milk and honey like I wanted it tobe but it'd at least be safe. Safer if nothing else.

We could just stop flying now. I always loved to fly but after such along journey I think I could never fly again. "Were finally here!"Elenore, the Lore Keeper, said from beside me turning, her longgolden hair moving to the beat of her wings. "You going to actuallyget some sleep?" She teased, as I was picked to be the leader ofour group I would only sleep every other stop when we rested on aplanet. I had responsibilities even though every other group with ahatchling did sleep every time I refused. Elenore acted a lot like Iwould expect an older sister to, even if I never had one since I wasthe oldest. She was extremely mothering and I didn't know what shewould do.

While we can not tell as hatchlings or even children if our matedies, we'd only know if when we reached the age of maturityif...if...I hold Theodore tighter to my chest at the thought of whatmight befall him. The pain starting at his gut, slowly moving to hischest. They said the afflicted would claw their chest trying to undothe pain. It would stay there but all slowly work up their neck asthey gasped for breath, coughing up blood till it finally reachedtheir brain. It would liquefy, slowly melting out their ears.

Part of me wanted to just end it now, wait until my son was asleepand cover his nose and mouth. Let him never have to think about thefact that his mate not be gone. I would have to tell him of thepossibility some day, and to just let him be innocent as he goes. ButI can't, what if his mate was alive and well? She could have easilyslipped away safe and be moving to one of our worlds. We nevertraveled more then a three moons journey from our home world so weshould be able to find her if she is alive. Plus if she is alive andI take Theodore out, I would be sentencing her to that fate. Butif...if this happens to Theodore as soon as he is clawing his chest Iwill have to...no. I can't think about that anymore.

Shaking my head I forcibly turn my mind from those thoughts and moveon. If the mate had lived past the time they had their comign of agebut died before they found them they would feel empty. Slowly emotionafter emotion would disappear. Sometimes they would end up killingthemselves, and sometimes they would stay taking on watching over thecommunity.

And finally if one half dies of a mated couple, which can only happenthrough an accident and foul play since if it was natural; either bydisease or old age. But if they did and had no children; either eggs,hatchlings or kids; even full grown and mated children, they would beable to keep their mind. If that was just the fact having a childwould make them think differently or if it was a genetic thing no oneknew nor could really test it.

But if they didn't have any children yet they'd go crazy. Flying orrunning and go wherever they needed to, until the pain ended.Normally which was only when they would die.

Shaking my head I finally see the atmosphere and send in a few of thequieter and sneakier of ours to go look at it. The rest of us go tosit on the white moon orbiting the planet as the eight go forewordsearching out places to be.

It was a rotation of this moon fully when they came back andexplained things to us, to the things that would be best to be. Thisplanet held so many possibilities, the rivers that ran through somany places where the few hatchlings we had could play as they grew,there were tall trees that were not like the trees we had in our homebut they could do and were also plenty of tall structures perfect forus.

But what would we do then? What would we do to slip into a life withthis population? We could live among them, as our ancestors had done.But at the same time who knows what could have happened over time?

"What shall we do, James?" Damien asked as they all turned tolook at me and I felt a part of me start to feel the anxiety of whatwas going on. I didn't want to be a leader; I was not meant to be aleader. I wasn't taught how to keep my head in serious emotion, howto inspire others to want to follow me to the ends of this universe.

I knew what I picked if it happened that something bad happened itwould be on me. I would be the one to blame, no one else. If I chooseto stay in this world and it is not safe I will be the cause ofanyone here dying. If I say to go further to the handful of otherplanets nearby that would be livable but not as good as this thrivingplanet and I would be the reason that my people were suffering.

I also knew that I had to be careful that it wasn't me wanting tofind and be with my mate that was effecting me. I had to keep myfirst and foremost thought on my people, but holding the cooingTheodore to my chest I could only think of how he deserved to have amother as well.

But the others deserved to be safe, and I could always find her andonce she understood I could leave her to take care of our little boybefore going to check in with them. So I only needed to worry aboutwhat was best for these people who for some reason that I did notunderstand were putting all their faith in me.

"James? Do we stay here at this blue and green planet? Or do wemove on to the red planet? Further?" I was asked by Garrett andgave him a calming smile, I knew it now. It was exactly what we allneeded and while either way had chances we would have to take onlyone felt like it would pay off more and have minimal risk.

"We stay here. This is our new planet."

So here we are,James is finally on planet Earth. Your home planet. Wonder what willhappen now?