*Note, this chapter has another language in it (one that I have made up) and the translations are at the bottom, but it is pretty easy to decipher. If you would prefer the translations in a different place, just let me know*

I groaned as I sat up. I looked at my mother and she was yelling some stuff in our native language to some other nosrep. I didn't have the strength to focus on what was going in or trying to decipher what they were saying. I had a major headache, like one you would have after a night full of drinking and partying. I wanted to crawl under the bedsheets and just die. I felt so weak and I wanted to throw up. My head was throbbing and it felt like it was to explode. I thought I was a ticking time bomb.
"Saros, are you feeling better?" My mother came and rubbed me on the back. I just nodded and grabbed the water that was on my bedside table.
"The doctor said you can go when you wake up, you're awake now so come on Saros," I saw her send daggers at the doctor in the room. I stood up and immediately fell back down on the bed. My legs felt like jello, but they also felt like millions of pins and needles jabbed me from every direction.
"I'm going to rest for a little while mom, I'll meet you at the house in a bit," I sat back on the bed and waved her off. I sat and tried to ignore my pain, I gulped back my puke and I just breathed.
•••
I had finally regained enough strength and walked out of the hospital. I walked out to see a small group dying off and I glanced around. I was about to walk to my house when I spotted the girl and started to walk over to her. I sort of limped because I was still in serious pain and I mustered up enough strength to joke and say:
"Why hello there. Did you come running to look for lil ol' me in the hospital?" She looked at me as if I was some drunk hobo who was trying to take her money.
"No. There was commotion and I couldn't sleep so I came to see what all the fuss was about," she crossed my arms and tried to make her face unreadable, but being a nosrep I could read her like a book. I liked to guess what she was thinking. She was like a forbidden book you didn't want to put down. The ones you weren't supposed to read and the ones you couldn't read, but you read anyways.  The types of books that captured you in its twists and plots.
"Oh, okay. Well goodbye then," I smiled and turned to go, but she placed her hand on my shoulder. I stopped in my tracks.
"So that's it? You're not even going to tell me why you were in the hospital?" She slowly turned me  around and I covered my blush with a neutral face.
"I mean, we don't know each-other so there's no reason for me to tell you what's going on," I walked away so she wouldn't realize I couldn't control my emotions. I heard her sigh as she just stood there and the rest of the group died down. I walked back to my house and I felt like I was floating on air.
"*Ih Saros. Elmocwe cabk. Stel' klat toaub hwat phanrped. I tlod ouy erouy' gintteg tosf," mother stood up and I sensed lots of anger coming off of her.
"What's that supposed to mean mom? Can we please speak in human? It's easier and my head is throbbing right now," I groaned and rubbed my temples. She rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Fine," she pointed to a chair for me to sit down in.
"What do you mean 'I'm getting soft'?" I sat down slowly, wincing at the pain.
"You were sitting and weren't able to handle a feeding." She said.
"Wait, someone was feeding off of my sorrow?" I was surprised and didn't realize
"Yes, some random nosrep fed off of your very strong sorrow and you couldn't handle it so you fainted. You were screaming when we put you in the ambulance and went to hug me. I think you should stay away from these humans, they are rubbing off on you."
"Oh, I thought someone was killing you."
"Me? A great warrior and guard to the master?  No one can possibly just kill me, are you planning something to kill your own mother?" She hissed like a snake, spitting on me while she spoke.
"What, no mother I love you. You're the one who stabbed me while I was unconscious," I stood up and ignored all pain and glared her in the eyes. I let my anger cover her as she yelled.
"No, the doctor injected you with something to make you calm down, you leapt up and tried to hit him as he was pulling me away from you. The nurses had to put restraints on your arms, that is until you went to go and hug me. I don't know how you did any of this in your sleep, but it all proves you're going soft like a human. Go to bed, I don't want to deal with you anymore," she went to the kitchen and grabbed a drink from the cupboard and shooed me off.
I grumbled and opened my mouth to argue, but she shot me a death glance and I shuffled to my room. At times like this when she grabbed a drink, I knew it wasn't safe to be around her. I laid on my bed and just sighed. I needed to make a plan, I was tired of this living. I wanted to leave and save the humans. While I thought to myself I drifted off to sleep.
•••
I woke to the sound of shuffling feet outside of my door, I sat up straight and looked around. There was no light outside, I must've been imagining things. I went to go sleep again, but out of the corner of my eyes I saw the feet of a person outside my door. I got up to go see what the commotion was, but I stopped at the door handle. I had realized my pain was mostly gone and I was ready to face whatever was out there. I clenched my teeth and slowly opened the door, and no one was there.
"Is someone there?" I looked up and down the hallway. I was about to shrug it off and go to my bed, but I saw my mother's bedroom door creak open.
"Mom? Are you awake?" I walked towards it and slowly opened the door.
"Ubt retasm, ym ons si oto chum ilke het snamuh, I evahé  ot lilk ihm fof! Taht nosrep dunolct' nifish a plemis skat kiel ym ons. Eh tegs daip ot lilk?" I was astonished at what she had said. My own mother was going to kill me, I had to get out of here.
"Hwat saw taht?" Master Agnes turned his head towards the door as one of the floorboards crept under my foot. I ran like the wind, I had to leave. I burst out the front door and ran for miles. I stopped in an alleyway and caught my breath. I hit the side of the wall in anger. My whole life has been an act, this was supposed to be the final scene. I was about to consider going back home to consider my fate or reason with my mother, when I heard a distant yelling. It was a man, he sounded worried and panicked, but when I read him he was full of anger. I took a peak around the corner and saw him. He was bald and tall. He looked exactly like the man in the girls fading light. The one who was making her depressed. He was talking to one of our holograms.
"His full name is Orion Andromeda Trillia-Rookez. I have no idea when he went missing though," I heard him say and my eyes drifted to the girl beside him. I was in shock, it was the girl. Her hair was in a high ponytail, she was wearing velvet pyjamas. I was about to shrink back into my alley way when I saw her break out of her father's grasp and start running. She was pretty far away and she was extremely slow, but I braced myself and when she was just about to pass me, I grabbed her and brought her in the alley with me.
"WHO ARE YOU? GET OFF ME!" She started to scream and kick like a wild animal. I covered her mouth and she bit me very hard and went on screaming again.
"Would you shut up? I'm hiding us away!" I told her.
"Tell me who you are then or I'm screaming louder," I sighed and told her.
"The name's Saros. We've met many times before. You know, the one who gave you the book?" I scowled at her and she stayed quiet for the rest of the time. She kept glancing at me and looking me up and down like I was a freak.
Randomly, she grabbed my arm and started running, faster than she had before, but she was still very slow. She kept looking back at me and glared every once in a while. Once she was sure that it was an empty area, we stopped and breathed. She looked at me and crossed her arms.
"So, you're one of them," she circled around me and I continued to breath.
"What do you mean by them? Also I never caught your name." I looked up at her and made a very confused face.
"You know exactly what I mean by them and if my guess is correct then you have no business in knowing my name." She looked at me, and kept full focus. I didn't see her blink once.
"If you mean alien, then yeah, I am. Got a problem?" I stood up and her glare followed me.
"So, what do you want from me?" She had finally stopped.
"Nothing, I saw you running and I decided you could use help," I sighed.
"Why were you there though? You couldn't have been waiting for me all night," she looked around, dazed and confused. She didn't want to be talking to me, she had a different task in mind.
"Good timing is all. I was gathering some rocks and dirt for a craft," I started kicking at some dirt. She knew I was lying. She looked me up and down, turned and walked away.
"Wait for me!" I  called after her, but she walked faster.
"Don't follow me, I don't need an alien to help me find my brother," She kept walking faster, at this rate she could walk faster then she could run.
It had been about two hours since she had walked away from me, but I kept following her. It wasn't like I had anywhere else to go. Every now and then she would look back and scowl at me.
"Ok, enough. What do you want? I told you to stop following me, I don't need help finding my brother. Especially from an alien," She stopped and faced me.
"I don't want anything except to help you find you brother," I smiled.
"Fine, but don't bug me," she went and walked again.
"ORION, CAN YOU HEAR ME?" This is the only thing she said.
"So, your brother's named after a constellation. How cool," I said trying to lighten the mood.
"Yeah, our mother loves space. She would love you aliens. I don't know how she could, though," She replied in a very icy tone.
She kept calling for her brother. Eventually I could see she was getting tired.
"You look tired, maybe we should stop here," I stopped in front of a decomposing log.
"Ew, I'm not sitting on that thing. And why is there a log on a ship anyways?"She made a very disgusted face, as if she wanted to throw up.
"Come on, sit. Look at the scenery. And we wanted to make it realistic for humans so look at the forest." I reached for her hand but she hit it away and walked closer to the log.
"WAIT! LOOK OUT THE-" Before I could finish, it had already happened.
"OH SHIT! Why is there dog crap lying randomly on the floor?! These are my new shoes, as well," she groaned.
"I said realistic, didn't I? Also, what do you mean by, new shoes?" My glance drifted down at her dirty, torn-up second-hand shoes.
"They are new to me, but now they're covered in dog shit and who knows what," She sat on the log and looked around.
"There's only trees," She looked at me as if I was crazy.
"Duh, we're at the edge of a forest. But look closer." I said. She sighed and got up. She walked closer to the nearest tree and put her face up on it.
"Close enough Saros?" She sarcastically said. 
"Nah, not yet. You have to get IN the tree." I managed to stifle a small giggle.
"But there's no holes. And I can't make one," she looked the tree up and down to act as if she was serious. We both laughed for a while, then she went back to looking at the scenery.
"I see trees, grass and flowers," she looked around.
"Come. look at these." I brought her to a large group of flowers. They were zinnias. She looked at me, dazed and confused.
"You know what these are? I thought you guys had crazy plants, like ones that grow cows and stuff." I just watched her as she smelt the flowers. She was very happy.
"Yeah, we do. But did you know, the first plant ever able to grow in space was a-"
"ZINNIA! Of course I know that," she interrupted me and I just giggled.
"Of course you do, but why? It's such a rare fact. I don't know one nosrep who knows that fact," I picked one of the zinnias and twirled it in my hand.
"My mother is obsessed with zinnias, hence why my name is Zinnia" she  looked up at the sky and her sadness that had disappeared for a fraction of a second had come back once again. I handed her the zinnia I was playing with and smiled.
"We should get going, Orion is probably worried," she stood up. I nodded at cue and we started walking off.

*Hi Saros. Welcome back. Let's talk about what happened. I told you you're getting soft.
*But master, my son is too much like the humans, I have to kill him off! That nosrep couldn't finish a simple task like killing my son. He gets paid to kill?
*What was that?

Hey guys, I'm sorry this is late. I was having some technical difficulties and I forgot what day it was. Also I think I'm going to start posting every other Sunday. At least until schools out. School has just gotten crazy for me. Sorry for changing the schedule but I'm going to stick with this one. Once schools out, I'll go back to posting every Saturday. Until next time
- @creative_hooman