The Shrooms

The Reveal of Shrooms

(Woman) She sits in the pilot seat with her luggage in the rear of the chair. The secret bag lays atop the control console. It's a black duffel bag with a broken strap and zipper that takes extra effort to open and close, proof it has traveled through many hands.

        Her excitement for what lies beyond triumphs her fear of the unknown. She's always been timid from childhood seeing the danger humans can cause. Her mother was abusing her father who has a reputation for being meek. She recalls the beatings he got, watching his blood spread across the kitchen when her mother stabbed him and when he had to go a month without glasses because she ran him over with the car and he couldn't afford a new pair after the car repairs. But the memory that shocked the most is when she saw her father cheating with another woman, an underage one. The way he was banging his body against her small frame like an inanimate object that needs fixing. How he choked her purple till she couldn't say stop or any safe word with one hand, covered her mouth with the other. The tears that rolled on the girls back from his eyes. It was the quietest moment in her history.

        It was that moment seeing the most caring and respectful person in her life do something knowingly wrong that made her give up faith. She wanted nothing to do with people. No friends, no partners. Her love began for the furthest places from wherever she was.

        The woman doesn't want to think about what she does. It's arduous preventing your mind from thinking about what you've seen and known most of your life. So she gets help. Opening the black bag ripping the seal on a zip lock bag. The scent of wood seeps out, her body already preparing for what comes next. She takes out a shroom then eats it whole.

(Prince) He tells his companion to prepare the special meal from the box. Quake turns the stove on that is simultaneously powered by wind and the small amounts of H2O in the air in space. A pan gets placed vegetable oil of some kind poured in. A steak filled with loveable grease of the grotesque animal it came from sizzles. It's cooked to a crisp to rid the meat of poisonous toxins. The shrooms top of the meal. The prince eats.

        Quake checks the box to get himself some shrooms. No luck. Why would there be more, the Prince is very self-invested, his mind doesn't think to consider others. The result of growing up in a family full of political minds in pursuit of power. He was taught no one can help you except for yourself. A good lesson about being strong and take risks to better oneself, what his parents didn't expect is that mindset making him selfish. If only you can help you then you can't and shouldn't help anyone else.

        The king noticed it when his only son, at a young age, had been eager for a certain girl's attention. He would tell his mother about her jokes, her outfits, the curly hair she never bothers styling. He wanted her and asked his father for help. Supposing to be a proud bonding moment for the king turned rotten when he was asked to send the girls' parents away to another planet so he can have her all to himself. The request was denied but the tactics didn't stop there.

        Now feeling the full effects of the shrooms, the Prince sees something out the window. He alerts Quake the best way possible.