Throughout the multiverse, there was no sign of intelligent life to be seen.

Well, that was about to change when Rayemue, otherwise known as Raye or Raye-Raye stepped foot inside an unknown universe who’s name was forgotten by a race of beings otherwise known as Time Travelers who are capable of slipping through dimensions, universes, and time.

She brought Degrydon with her, who would be considered her husband if he were on Earth.

After countless times arguing over searching for intelligent life outside the Nexus, a home of theirs and a portal to the infinite amount of universes beyond, Degrydon finally caved in and followed her request.

After an century of flying, they came across a luscious green planet, one which looked like a marble of various shades of green and sapphire, that had swirling pink clouds and without a sun to keep it warm.

Or course it had to have intelligent life, Rayemue thought.

“Degrydon, should we dive down?” Rayemue asked. Her long white wavy hair formed a halo around her head as she was suspended in space.

From this view, the planet looked to be the size of her hand if not bigger.

“I don’t know. The last planet you thought had intelligent life didn’t.”

“Aww, come on. Don’t be so hopeless.”

Degrydon frowned, narrowing his slanted, dark eyebrows. “You have been searching forever. Our race is the oldest and the last of two races to exist in this multiverse.”

“Besides, we need to go home. And we are getting far. Before we know it, eons will pass and Assira will become a Shell.”

A twinge of sadness filled Rayemue. “But you promised.”

Then she looked at the planet, grinning, and zipped down at a fast rate. A speck of hope appeared in her being.

“Nooooo——“ Degrydon’s voice faded into oblivion. However the weight of his telepathic bond still was there: connected to her being.

Rayemue smiled, of course there was hope. The fact that there was life here, meant that there might be a potential ally, depending how evolved they might be. If not, then that could be fixed... somehow.

She realized that trees here were green geometric shapes held up by a purple trunk, if it could be called a trunk and part of the ground took an appearance like soft green clouds, a shade lighter than the trees.

She willed her russa that took on the appearance of thin horn-like protuberances extending horizontally from a circlet, latch itself from her aura and fell into her palms.

And she fell into the ground, her russa falling from her hands, into a cushioned surface

“Oof.” She said this muffled as her face planted itself in the ground.

Degrydon floated above her. “This is really not a good decision.”

She lifted herself from the ground, swaying back and forth, her arms out trying to keep herself from falling again. “Your starting to act like Alequin. Come on, let explore.”

“I think I’ll stay incorporeal, thanks.”

“Where is your russa?” Degrydon asked.

Rayemue’s body threw itself on the ground as she stepped on a high surface.

“I actually don’t know.”

“Why did you take it off.”

“To make exploring more fun.” Rayemue said, trying to lift herself from the ground. It has been awhile since she was ‘alive’, so her muscles were struggling to hold her weight.

Now where did that darned thing go, she thought.

“Help me search!” Rayemue said, frantically. There was no way she was going to be stranded in this unknown place. “Deg?”

She came across something silver, half buried in the ground, and quickly swiped it up. “Yes!”

Degrydon raised an eyebrow. “I really think you should—“

He interrupted himself, “Aww maybe this won’t hurt.”

He levitated towards the ground, his verde cloak trailing behind him, and he took off his headpiece.

“Why didn’t I think of that?”

Degrydon laughed. “You are still quite slow.”

“So are you!” Rayemue teased, now come.

She wobbled from side to side and she slid towards the ground, which had a fuzzy texture.

Rayemue’s face went slack as she saw something between the strangely shaped trees, a portal, teal and translucent, but then she smirked again as she ran, ignoring the pain, weakness as it radiated through her muscles.

She jumped.

What she saw before her looked odd, ethereal perhaps, at least from her point of view. It looked to be made and constructed by ‘intelligent’ beings.

She put on her russa and the pain quickly vanished.

She lifted herself from the ground into the air and floated inside the crafted tunnel.

And what she saw before her left her even more surprised than before. A shiny, sharp pillar of metal extending from a brown handle.

Rayemue considered it to be a weapon or maybe a toy.

Thought after thought spun in her mind.

She was right all along.