Chapter 8
Year 2090, Zyla's Age - 23
Alessia and Zach Age - 10
I woke up to the sound of shouting. I jerked up and saw Alessia and Zach playing and shouting. Those two would be the death of me.
"Be quiet will ya!" I shouted at them. They looked at me with sheepish expressions.
"Sorry about that," Zach says. I roll my eyes and get up.
I look at the time. 2 hours till the first moon rises. Nedroj has a total of 4 equidistant moons and therefore we have around 4 night times and 4 day times in 24 hours. Each day/night lasts for about three hours. But since they last for such short durations, we kept 24 hours as one day nonetheless. So, to accustom to these conditions, the electricity here is really developed, to make night time seem as day too.
The star Nedroj revolves around is called Nus as a reminder of our sun. It takes a total of 10800 hours in other words 450 days to revolve around the Nus.
Nedroj experiences only 3 seasons in a year. Spring isn't a season here, only one place in the entire Nedroj experiences Spring. To be honest, It's not even half as beautiful here as it was on earth. The tides are higher, the creatures are more ferocious, there are hardly any flowers, and the soft breezes aren't actually soft, even the softest of winds bring dust along. But, I guess, this is home right? Home sweet home. The worst thing is Alessia and Zach hardly remember earth. I guess it's for the best though. They do remember the vague details and after coming back they slowly healed by forgetting.
It's been just 5 years here, but I can already see changes. I mean of course many people had started living here before me including my parents, sister and friends but It seems humans still haven't learnt their lesson. They've apparently found a mineral with similar characteristics to coal, and though it causes less smoke, the amount which is used to produce the thermal energy to create the amount of light we require here is just...... but it's changing.
According to Ash, we might destroy this planet too in around 200 years, ironic right? Seems like we can never learn from our mistakes.
It makes me wonder if I can do anything to change this, but I've tried before but it didn't work. Who says this time it will.
I look at the twins playing and suddenly an idea pops into my head. Maybe, just maybe it could work.
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