Acroama

The door swings on its creaky hinge as me, my parents, and my brother walk into the pet hospital. I’m hit with a wave of wet dog, bird cage, and cat pee, desperately masked with several fruity smelling air fresheners. Two steps forward in and the smell of alcohol reminds us why we’re here.  Tia squirms slightly in my arms, clearly reacting to the same smells. Smells that for a Border Collie are amplified ten-fold. I look down at her gentle face as it turns up to mine. I hold her in my arms, because the leash felt wrong. She’s wrapped in a white sheet. Something to keep her warm, something clean, something new and expensive, something to show that she was noble, something to keep the dirt off her precious fur when she’s laid to rest in the ravine under the apple tree. I wonder if she knows why we’re here. I can’t tell if the light in her dark brown eyes is a question or a goodbye. I remember carrying her like this when I had just become a teenager, I thought I was so strong. She fou...

Over the next ten years the remaining populations of the CW and NWO gathered from across the Earth under the leadership of Adam Fismor and Martin Rocha. A representative government was established that held leaders accountable in limited offices that were checked and balanced in power. Accountability for partisanship was especially monitored and established.  The CW and NWO disbanded their organizations and united as citizens of Eden. In these ten years, construction of large interplanetary vessels began.  Two were sufficient for earth's population, which now settled at only several thousand.  A ship resembling the Madonna was constructed to carry Ava, Megan, Misty, and Brooklyn. Also aboard this ship was a crew of 20 people who would help settle Eden.  After 12 years of Cryogenic sleep the crew arrived at the entrance of the wormhole. The three days traveling through the wormhole it is rumored were spent in the company of the ICs. The 20 crew members present along w...