Chapter 2It was getting dark. Alex had gone shopping for Mida's clothes. He was buying clothes for a girl for the first time. Mida slipped off his bed and landed quietly on the floor. She was starving, which was understandable given that she hadn't eaten anything since the starship crashed to the ground. This house was totally unknown to her. The accommodation systems on her planet are different. Their structures are all one-story. The roof is used for saucer landings and takeoffs.
She raced across the room to the spiral stairs. She grabbed the railing of the thin metal staircase. She pulled herself up the spiral and reached the roof. It was open, like their roofs. She looked at the horizon. The sky was a deep blue that was quickly fading to black, and stars were starting to twinkle. Thro
