VISUAL PROMPT

By Tilak Baloni @Unsplash

Write a short story or scene about the character pictured above.

Alien

I should be dead. They killed my family. They killed my friends. They ruined my life. And now. Now I’m all that’s left. I step outside my temporary hut and out onto the ice. A storm rages around me and cold seeps into every pore if my being. But I relish the pain. I deserve it. I shouldn’t have survived. I‘m the reason they came in the first place. If I’d never met Zhaire, never gotten to know him, never trusted him, never _fallen in love with him, _never made a deal with his people, my family, my whole entire species would be alive right now.

The sound of the wind is so complete in my ears I don’t realize I have a visitor until he walks up beside me and jostles my shoulder. Zhaire. Come back to gloat no doubt. I hate that I still feel drawn to him after all he’s done. Zhaire points towards the hut. Guess he came to talk. I have nothing better to do so I shrug a shrug he probably can’t see under my layers and head towards my makeshift home.

A few days later I’m boarding a ship, one that will take me away from the only home I’ve ever known. To a whole new planet in another starsystem. I might be all that’s left, I might be guilty, but I’m a survivor. So when Zhaire holds out his hand and motions for me to walk with him onto the alien ship, I don’t hesitate.

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