AU Thear: Evelyn: A Planet Outside the Window (part 3)

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Breathing a deep sigh, filled with a mix of relief and regret, Evelyn left her room behind and started walking through the corridors of the ship. As she walked she could hear the metal making a slight clinking sound, which was something she wasn’t going to miss. It just reminded her how far away she was from the life she’d planned on having on Earth and how close they now were to a new world. They didn’t even know if it was inhabited. She couldn’t be certain whether it would be better for them to find it inhabited or uninhabited. None of them would have any idea how to survive if it wasn’t inhabited, but there was no way of knowing what sort of lifeforms would be down there if it was inhabited. She ran a hand through her hair, knowing that thinking about it wasn’t really doing her any good, but she couldn’t stop herself.

Evelyn wasn’t the only one out walking. Few of the people who walked past her were people she would call friends, but that didn’t stop her from hoping they’d survive the crash that was coming. No one should die because others had made decisions that led to them all being on a spaceship that was close to a world most of them never ever really believed existed. They knew why they’d been put on the ship and it seemed as though the majority of the girls she had spoken to had come to terms with the idea that they were, eventually, going to die there. Unfortunately the world outside the window had brought that eventually much closer than it should have been.

Thankfully Nikki was in her room, staring out of one of the windows at the world that was slowly getting closer. Evelyn knocked on the door, even though it was open, before stepping into the quiet room. “Hey, Nikki,” she said.

“Hey, Evie. I wondered when you were going to get here.”

“I was talking to Lilith.”

Nikki turned to look at her. “What does Lilith think about what’s going to happen?”

“We aren’t all going to survive the crash that’s coming.”

“That’s stating the obvious.” Nikki smiled. “Maybe we’ll get lucky and crash into the sea instead of land.”

“It’s still not going to be easy to get out of the ship.”

“If I’d had a choice I would have volunteered to be one of the girls leaving Earth behind, even though I knew it was unlikely that any of the ships were ever going to find land. The ships were just a way of getting rid of some of the population, because there were too many people, and as far as they were concerned their only option was sending everyone away with the hope that there would be another world somewhere. Another inhabited world.” Nikki sighed. “Now we find there is a world, a world we’re about to hit, and all we can do is hope that we’re going to survive what those idiots did to us.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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