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"I... wait, how can magic be real?" I was still trying to wrap my head around what the stupid creature meant.

"I don't know, it's your planet!"

"That I haven't been to! It's been two thousand years since an Anthran has set foot on that god forsaken rock. No one knows about what you're calling magic."

"Really? 'Cause, according to our estimations, some two or three thousand Anthrans know about it, along with a bunch of other creatures."

"Wait- what?! There's people living on it!?"

"Well, yeah. I told you about the magnetic caves and-"

"Yeah yeah yeah, but still! That's not... How..."

"How, what?"

"How can anything survive being trapped in a tunnel for two thousand years?!"

"They weren't. We saw them get out within hours of Reset. They don't have any memory of anything that went on before Reset, and they don't even remember Reset. They're primitive compared to you or I, but they could say the same thing about us, just when talking about magic. We don't understand how, or why, but your people have magic flowing through your veins. We can't manipulate your biology, it just fixes itself. Everything on your god damn planet fixes itself! Believe me, if we could manipulate the Anthran genome, we'd have done it by now! Hell, we'd have laid claim to your entire system as a symbol to Dravinity that we will not be ignored, but we can't! We can't do anything to get an advantage over your planet."

"You... You tried to invade our planet? Why?!"

"'Cause you were a threat. Every time Dravinity creates or discovers a new creature, he ignores and forgets about the old ones. He's like a child, he only cares about his new toys, and his old ones pale in comparison. When he turned his back on us, our star nearly went super nova. The only reason it didn't was because we built a creature that could withstand the temperatures of the planet, and would convert itself into a sort of fuel."

"Uh, what? No creature can survive being turned into plasma."

"It isn't, it stays a good distance from the star. They form huge colonies that live off of light and heat. The immense temperatures allow them to create new matter, and that small amount of matter is then blasted into the star, fueling it."

"You managed to create creatures that turn light into helium!? Why the hell did you bother with technology?! You already had the ability to make, destroy, and do anything!"

"Life isn't that easy, Carter. The creatures themselves slowly died from lack of nutrients. The only way they could survive was when we made another one that would generate nutrients from light and shove into the first creature. Eventually, after using some twenty or thirty different bacterium, we managed to make a sort of ecosystem, in space."

"... You people are stupid."

"Says the people who can't manipulate life."

"You said it yourself, Earth life can't be changed."

"But that's because of differences in the way ours work compared to how yours work. Ours are better."

"Huh. Sure they are."

"Did we need to make massive machines that could've destroyed our planet? Nope! And we got what we wanted."

"We also had to put up with wars and battles against people who were morally unaligned, and tried to do crazy things, like control life and conquer the world."

"Thing is, none of us were morally unaligned-"

Alpha and Gamma came bursting through the doors and had crazed looks on their faces, which I found odd that they were dumb enough to remove their helmets in the first place.

"Carter! Take off your helmet, you need to try this!" Alpha shoved something into my hand, and Gamma started prying at the seal of my helmet.

"How about not. And, how are you able to breath?"

"The density's work! The pressure isn't bad, and it feels so nice to breath the air here!" [Gamma]

"The air tastes so sweet and warm, and god! It's so nice and warm!" [Alpha]

"What are you talking about-" I felt a sudden puff of air on my neck, and heard the hiss of air leaking through something, and suddenly my helmet was ripped off my head. I inhaled the air and found... it wasn't like I expected. It actually had a taste and a scent in it. It wasn't the smell of iron, copper, or sulfer, it was something completely new and alien to me. It was sweet, and a little spicy, and also a little sour, but it was also kind of... everything.

"What the..." My voice sounded different too. On the Infinatum things bounced and echoed, and through the speakers in helmets, they bounce and echo, but not here. My voice was quieter. It sounded warmer and friendlier than I'd expected, but it sounded different. Everything else sounded different, too.

"It's cool, isn't it?" [Alpha]

"I... It's... I don't even know how to feel about it. It's so... so vibrant. Is the Infinatum's air like this?"

"No. Not at all. This is something completely different and brand new. We've found home." [Gamma]

"Home? Woah woah woah woah woah! You weren't actually gonna stay here, were you?" [Skjorn]

"Oh... shit." [Alpha]

"Let the war of the worlds begin." [Gamma]

"Huh?" [Skjorn]

"Wait, isn't there something we can work out? Some way that we can be allowed to stay here?" [Me]

"Ehh... Honestly, I'm pretty sure it'd have been easier had your people actually, you know, given us some warning. Could've cleared a big space for your ship, and let you all live here, but no. You didn't give us a warning, so there's no where to put your huge ass ship, and there's no where seperate from us for you to live."

"Huh?" [Alpha]

"We're perfectly okay with it. You're the ones Dravinity favors, and if you're here, he'll have to pay attention to us! It's perfect!"

"Dravinity's an ass hole." [Gamma]

"What."

"God dammit, Gamma." [Me]

"He is! He ditched your planet to go look at other creatures! He's a fuckin' dick!" [Gamma]

"Oh. Yeah, but... but don't say those things. He wouldn't like being called a dick by his own creations."

"Yeah, if he were real." [Gamma]

"Gamma, yesterday you were going on and on about what proof we have of Dravinity's existence, and now you claim he doesn't exist? Make up your god damn mind!" [Alex]

"It doesn't matter."

"So, Skjorn, we can stay here?" [Me]

"I guess. I mean, I'm not sure how that ship would land..."

"Oh, no. That isn't coming down. Ever. At best, we'd create some sort of consistent travel between here and the Infinatum."

"Oh. Well, I think you guys should get adjusted to the food here. And, please, could you take off those ridiculous suits?"