DAY 1
It's dark, and it smells. The darkness is suffocating, threatening to close in and finish me off. I try to raise my head but it aches, throbbing with every motion--small or large. That's when I hear it—the beeping of alarms, the wooshing of the ship's cooling vents. It's then that I realize the worst has happened; I've crashed, I've crashed, I've crashed.

I stop breathing, stunned into silence. I can't remember. Did I cause the crash or was it a malfunction? The wooshing continues in the background, calming me, hiding the beeping--warning beeps that I must've missed. Somehow I didn't hear them. They would've gone off as soon as the ship overheated, but they didn't. Either that or I couldn't remember. What had happened?

As I lie here, I begin to think of the possibilities it could've been. I would've heard the alarms if they went off, so it had to be a malfunction. A horrible malfunction that happened the day I was sent to scout the planet our army was about to invade.

That's when I wonder: What planet am I on?

And a new feeling of darkness overwhelms me.

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^ Invader as my adorable real-life plush. :)

[ Reached 600 HSD on February 1, 2013! Booktastic Badge received January 2, 2012.
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