["Oh, good!" says the squirrel, aloud this time, and bounces joyfully. "I think... I think I can bring you with me, if you would please hold still?"
presuming they do, the squirrel... begins to float, surrounded by a glowing aura. after it focuses a few moments, so do the two of them, slowly floating upward after it as the critter drifts higher, up into the sky. slow, at first, but then faster, darting up into the atmosphere, the floating islands growing slower beneath them. it's chilly, but the aura around them feels protective as they travel further still, zooming away up into the stars.
once again, its voice speaks in their heads.
There are meant to be other places, far, far out in the universe, where other peoples dwell on other worlds. We have very important things to learn from them, when we find them, but the rest of us... the rest of us came up empty. There was no one there.]
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presuming they do, the squirrel... begins to float, surrounded by a glowing aura. after it focuses a few moments, so do the two of them, slowly floating upward after it as the critter drifts higher, up into the sky. slow, at first, but then faster, darting up into the atmosphere, the floating islands growing slower beneath them. it's chilly, but the aura around them feels protective as they travel further still, zooming away up into the stars.
once again, its voice speaks in their heads.
There are meant to be other places, far, far out in the universe, where other peoples dwell on other worlds. We have very important things to learn from them, when we find them, but the rest of us... the rest of us came up empty. There was no one there.]