the grass is always greener...

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

Laurie lies upon a field of flowers, Spot chasing the butterflies, her bag with her books, her papers and her pencils emptied next to her. She'd tried to write a few lines but all she ended up with were some dry lines, which she'd ended up erasing and erasing.

"This is hard," she sighs, rolling over on her stomach, peeking through the wildflowers, watching Spot try to catch a butterfly with his mouth, but the gorgeous orange sulphur flitted away just in time. It made her laugh softly. "But I guess you're having an even harder time, huh?"

Spot trots over and nudges Laurie's head. She reaches up and scatches that one place behind his ear that he loves getting scratched.

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[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

She nods. "Yea. The Ohm came to take the planet and attacked everyone. We had to evacuate the planet..." she looks down at her lap where Spot is looking up at her, head cocked to the side. "In the end, it turned out, we didn't really win, because the planet was badly damaged." That had been hard to accept.

[dhianeila.livejournal.com]

"Badly damaged ... so it probably lost its starway."

Attacks, evacuation. Humanity already had to deal with that once before, and they had worked so hard to rile against fate, reclaim their home planet and learn to coexist with those who had hunted them. So much work, only to be in this situation now...

"I hope that when this is all over, we are able to restore that planet to its former life."

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

"I guess so..." she doesn't really want to think about what they'd had to leave behind. It'd been awful altogether.

She looks back up at the woman and nods her head, although it is weak. "I hope so too...maybe Stacy will go back to it. Maybe it'll be a mission." She scratches behind spot's ear for comfort, absent.

[dhianeila.livejournal.com]

"It would be a very worthwhile mission. A planet where one is born and raised means so very much to people. When there is no more threat, I'm sure that we will be able to return to that place. Even if the damage on the planet was bad enough to cut it away from the starway."

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

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"I hope so." Something about the girl makes her feel really hopeful, and sure that maybe just maybe, someday they will return the vacation planet to its former pristine brilliance and glory.

[dhianeila.livejournal.com]

"I do, as well."

She bowed her head slightly toward Laurie. "I am Dhianeila Y Leisha Altoria Ol Yunos. What is your name?"

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

"Laurie Collins," Laurie says, a little amazed at the other girl's long name.

[dhianeila.livejournal.com]

"It's nice to meet you, Laurie. Have you been on Stacy for very long?"

[terribly2shy.livejournal.com]

"Not really. I think two months..." She isn't quite sure.