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Ch4 Not Alone (Part 1)

The sounds of insects and all sorts of nocturnal fauna were all that could be heard in the forest. Holiday slowly opened her eyes, with the light of the moons and stars passing through the leaves. She could feel the warmth of her own blood seeping out onto the dirt. Holiday focused her eyes on the night sky, the moving stare still shining bright. Holiday rose, her back sticking to the ground thanks to the coagulating blood. She needed to clean her wounds, She needs to sleep, she needs to go back to the camp. Her back aching as she stumbled and dragged her body back home, her conciseness fading in and out. As she finally made it to the camp she collapsed

“I need to get … inside,” she said as she dragged her failing body towards the shelter. The bat-rabbit’s were hoping and gliding over the small clearing that surrounded the camp. “It's… getting cold” holidays consensus failed her, the last thing she could see was a small Bat-rabbit hoping up to her before it was consumed by the darkness.

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Consumed by darkness holiday vision returned. Her body was falling in a void of nothing. Visions of her life came and went, visions of family gathering for holidays, her first day at a new school, even her ex dumping her before an anniversary all flashed before her. She couldn't help but smile as she saw her life and all that she has accomplished and gone through. The adventures and hardships she faced, the celebrations and pits of disappear.

The application she sent to be a part of the colony research team was approved, the new life and plants she was asked to learn, the crash and fall of the station, her landing, and the new world she found herself in. holidays body slowed its descent as the vision of a bat-rabbit staring at her from the treetops, and the small herd of tall, skinny dear esc animal she found by the river on day appeared. The sight of that beast. The rushing forest as her feet finding purchase on the void. The roaring and growling of that monster chasing her, the pain of its claws tearing at her back. The strain of her muscles as she held onto the rope. The exhaustion she fought through to heal her injury, to get home, to… survive.

Everything faded again, the visions and memories stopped as a small light appeared in the distance. Her feet dragged her towards it. One step after another her shambling turned into a walk then, a jog, and soon a sprint. The light expanded larger and larger until it surrounded her and changed the void that surrounded her into a blinding light.

Holiday opened her eyes once again. the blazing bright light of the red dwarf star was beginning to crest over the horizon. As her sight returned she noticed she was surrounded by a herd of the bat-rabbits, their heads were on the ground and each one was facing her. Her sight focused on the one directly in front of her. It was smaller than the rest but its coat was a brighter gray tone compared to the browns and blacks of the others. Its head rose to meet her gaze and as it did the others did the same and began darting away and scattering. Holiday picked herself up sitting on her knees as she and the rabbit looked into each other's eyes. The pain and wounds on her back were no longer there. The only evidence of it was nausea and feeling of blood loss.

“Was it you that did this?” holiday was so confused but she didn't have time to think before The small rabbit crawled and leaned closer sniffing at her before extending one of its clawed wings and poking her knees. She shifted herself into a sitting position and the rabbit got closer. It climbed onto her lap standing on its hind legs. Holiday slowly grabbed it and lifted it up to eye level. Holidays eyes widened as the black eyes that it had slowly shifted into a green which matched hers before returning to normal.

“Im gonna call you …Luna” as she said this it started to flap its wings and fly. It circled above her and landed on her shoulder. The weight of it caused Holiday to stumble a little as she finally stood up. Holiday looked towards the seeds box she tossed and then back at Luna. “Wanna give me a hand with the planting?”.