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ABBYI wasn’t sure whether to cry, faint or laugh hysterically. I’d kept rubbing my eyes when Earth had slowly grown smaller on the screen in front of me. It was completely different from any pictures of space I’d seen in the past. I wasn’t sure why, maybe just because it was real, I was on a spaceship and I was starting to realise that my life would never be the same.
Spaceship. Aliens. There had to be aliens, right? Humans weren’t advanced enough for technology like this. While I was convinced there were things governments kept from us, this was too un…earthly. The metal walls shimmered in a way metals back home didn’t. It was hard to even put into words. I felt like a newborn pup thrown into a bright world full of sounds and objects I didn’t understand.
Take the floating table in th
