((Btw, I have some prompts hanging around from other memes, if you'd like to play with those, too. I'd need to figure out how to get the style patch set up on my musebox, though.))
Surely they haven't been missing for more than a day and a half - at least, Chaka hopes they haven't. "None of this makes any sense. I could understand you being taken, but why both of us?" He has no idea what kind of group would want both him and Daniel out of the way - but then, if it was just about getting them out of the way, it didn't make any sense to strand them together rather than just killing them. Whatever is going on here, he's starting to suspect the answers are in whatever it is they're walking toward.
Daniel shakes his head. "I don't know, Chaka. But it can't be anything good."
His steps were getting a little slower as a dry wind was picking up. It completely obliterated their footprints behind them. Now they couldn't even see where they had been, they had no choice but to keep going forward. Daniel was tiring in the extreme heat, hoping that it was just an illusion that the object in the distance didn't look to be any closer than before.
Chaka is wondering the same thing - but then, he's used to operating in much more temperate regions, where there are always objects in the foreground that can be easily used to judge distance and scale. It's more difficult on the barren surface of an alien world, and the object could be miles farther away than he had estimated. The prospect of having to walk that far in this heat isn't a welcome one, but it's not like they have a choice. For now, he keeps his head down against the wind, pulls the collar of his tunic up over his nose and mouth to keep out the dust, and presses onward.
Eventually, the object does begin to grow bigger on the horizon, and they can begin to make out details. It's definitely a crashed spaceship of some kind; the design is vaguely reminiscent of a Tel'tak, but much more primitive, and the sun is gleaming off its cockpit canopy. Chaka's never seen anything like it before; he tilts his head, trying to figure out exactly what it is he's looking at. "What is that thing?"
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Sure felt like longer.
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Surely they haven't been missing for more than a day and a half - at least, Chaka hopes they haven't. "None of this makes any sense. I could understand you being taken, but why both of us?" He has no idea what kind of group would want both him and Daniel out of the way - but then, if it was just about getting them out of the way, it didn't make any sense to strand them together rather than just killing them. Whatever is going on here, he's starting to suspect the answers are in whatever it is they're walking toward.
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His steps were getting a little slower as a dry wind was picking up. It completely obliterated their footprints behind them. Now they couldn't even see where they had been, they had no choice but to keep going forward. Daniel was tiring in the extreme heat, hoping that it was just an illusion that the object in the distance didn't look to be any closer than before.
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Eventually, the object does begin to grow bigger on the horizon, and they can begin to make out details. It's definitely a crashed spaceship of some kind; the design is vaguely reminiscent of a Tel'tak, but much more primitive, and the sun is gleaming off its cockpit canopy. Chaka's never seen anything like it before; he tilts his head, trying to figure out exactly what it is he's looking at. "What is that thing?"
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