As the pair crossed the the roaring river, they noticed a figure waiting for them on the other side. Black against the sun behind it, was the silohete of a man. Caleo and Vera both instinctively stoped in the mist of the unforgiving current at their feet, nothing, after all, could be more fearsome than a man on what was supposed to be a deserted planet. The man stood incredibly still, except for t...

Hunched over, his sweaty hands on his knees, he pants heavily. The run to the door had taken much out of him. He hears the clicking of the door knob, the sound of a squeaking door hinge, so his eyes dart up. And there stands the man he came to see, father, the raven hair barely brushed back, the eyebrows furrowed in confusion, the lines round his mouth revealing past joys, but the thing the son co...

The Golden City they called it, gold buildings rose almost past the muddy beige and brown sky. Stores and houses hung on the red soil like shelves. Caleo preferred most of all the circular buildings, built like cascading disks separated by small rooms and halls. It all fascinated him but it also unsettled him. He could not for the life of him pinpoint the reason, but he felt that there was always ...

“I was only trying to be what you wanted father. I wanted to be like you. You whom the doctors claim are mad.” she sat looking out the window, not daring to look at him, at the glazed eyes and the drop of drool on the side of his mouth, at the pale dead skin. The only thing betraying life was the faint twitching of the open mouth and the rising and falling of his stomach. “You who commanded every ...