Short Story

Amanda Thompson

Thousands of years ago, in an undeveloped world at the edge of the Milky Way, life began to crawl its way to the surface of the planet. For hundreds of years, generations of creatures lived there in relative quiet as the new world began to flourish around them. This world was known as Echo.
You are one of the sentient life forms living on the lush natural landscape of Echo's crust. Your species is known as the S'serts - Cat like creatures with usable thumbs and moderate intelligence.
"Thud. Thud. Thud." You can hear the steady beat of your mother's heart as you huddle tightly against her chest. The frigid winter wind whips by you, screaming its outrage, but your mother's thick fur blocks it out, coating your fragile body in a lair of protective fluff. Blinking frost out of your eyelashes, you open your eyes for the first time.
look around
meow