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Dawn

Dawn told me that she was born and raised in space. Literally a dock-worker. She spent the greater half of her life space-walking, attatching cables and hoses to ships that would pull into her station. She has never even been in visible distance of a terrestrial planet, let alone set foot on any world. Her life was spent adrift in the sea of emptiness.

It showed, too. Her skin was pale, her eyes were sunken in and her body was long and slender. An adaption to life inside a humming machine, she would gracefully slide through the ship like a seal, laughing as we all clumsily bumped into the walls. The unforgiving and confusing physics of space was her home and while we awkwardly fumble, clinging to anything solid, she would only smirk as she would let loose her cable and drift out into the great distances between the docking ships.

Our work took us to our distant ancestral homeworld. Earth.
The old movies and story-books made it seem like it was some kind of paradise. The last recorded transmissions from Terra were of a ghastly desert of mankind's own making. Humanity was right to leave Terra, and those who stayed behind would rot and die with the planet. What was once the seat of the most great and beautiful civilizations was now only home to despots and pirates.

When we landed, I felt that horrible sinking feeling in my stomach when gravity begins to take effect. Everything that the other passangers did not secure to the bulkheads fell to the deck.
Dawn was not secured either and she found herself unable to get up.

The gangway to the craft opened and the thick, salty smell of the ocean filled my nostrils. I looked outside and scowled in disappointment. At first the light was bright, but when it settled I was almost shocked. This was our glorious homeworld?
To the west was a great and expansive ocean, blanketed by clouds. To the east was an endless stretch of lifeless desert. There was no life in either direction. The only distinguishing feature was a lone rock jutting from the beach. I was very disappointed. It hardly compared to the scenic photos preserved in ancient books and magazines.

Then I hear panting. Dawn was crawling onto the beach from the gangway. She could not stand, never having known how or needed the strangth to do so in space. She made her way onto the beach and the foam washed all around her. She fell to her side.

When I rolled her over onto her back, she stared up into the sky. I saw tears roll down her face.

"It's beautiful," I heard her whisper.

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