As we trudged along the desolate planet surface, we didn’t see any signs of life. We walked along the barren rocky desert for hours on end before we found a cave where we slept for the night.
When I woke up, very strangely, to something patting my head. When I blinked my eyes open I saw that it was a green hand with two fingers and a thumb, with fingers that were very long and thin and grew to about the size of those really big marbles you sometimes get that don’t ever fit into the marble sets and don’t have any apparent purpose accept that they’re pretty to look at. The thumb was somewhat thicker and shorter, but still had the same sized big marble thumb tip. I sat up with a jolt. Whatever was patting me emitted a screech and ran away. The last sight I caught was a two-toed foot fleeting from my range of vision in the cave.
I woke up the alabaster lion and tried to describe what I experienced and what it was that I had seen and if the alabaster lion knew what it was. He answered no, and out of pure curiosity I popped out, “do you have any name other than the alabaster lion?”
“Just Alabaster is fine.”
“Well then, um, Alabaster, I vote that we tail it and try to figure out where it came from.”
“I second that,” said Alabaster.
We walked out of the cave and Alabaster offered to carry me on his back to get there faster. We soon caught sight of a green dot in the distance. As we got closer, we could make out that the green dot was wearing a sort of jumpsuit that was different shades of gray. We slowed down as we got closer so that he/she/it wouldn’t hear us and as the little green creature got closer to his/her/its target we could see huge pillars of black shiny pirate crystal carved with intricate designs. We had reached a city.
The green creature turned around unexpectedly and saw us. It emitted a loud EEEEEP and ran into the city and disappeared among a huge throng of other creatures identical to it. “EEEP, EEEEP, EEEEP” was all they said as we approached. We got to what we presumed was a hotel and attempted to get a room, but the concierge just EEEPED and ran in circles with its arms sticking up in the air, so we just took an empty room and plotted what we were going to do. We decided just to get one of the little green creatures to be our friend and use its help to find a way off the planet (in our desperation to find some civilization we had completely lost the escape pod in the endless expanse of desert.
We set down the little stuff we had on the beds and left the hotel and searched around the city. Everybody was either in their houses or hiding under crates and peeking out in between the boards. We did find one little green creature who wasn’t hiding.
“EEEP” it said, as brave as a very tiny creature that can only say “EEEP” can sound. “EEEEEEEP.” Then I realized something. I reached up to my forehead and twiddled with the knobs on the headband. It took me a while to get it right, at times I got “EEEEOOORRP” and “OOOOP” but I eventually got it.
“I don’t know what you are and you’re really scary, but are you friendly?” I heard.
“Yes, we’re friendly,” I said, hoping that it understood me. Its mouth gaped open and I could see that it had no teeth, which was obviously why it could only say “EEEP”.
“Good,” it said. “I’ll show you where I live.”