Ten reasons to stay.
She always went, she never stayed. Maybe it was because of her impatient nature or maybe it was something in her DNA. Maybe it was due to the example laid out before her: Dad hadn’t even bothered to see her good and buried. Or maybe it had more to do with an overwhelming curiosity to always see what lay in the furthest reaches of the universe.
For whatever the cause, Jenny had always possessed many reasons to go in her life, a lot of excuses, too: The atmosphere’s too thick, the temperature to hot. Too many people here, not enough there. Too backwards, too forwards, too strange. Not what I’m looking for, not what I want. Too much to see out there, too much to do. Absolutely no room to run here at all. What; I’m not a dwarf!
In all her life, though, there were only ever a handful of reasons to stay:
The second time she had found any semblance of an excuse to remain planet side for longer than a day, it had been within a small farming community on Arcadia IX that Jenny thought would make for an interesting visit. Instead, she had led a struggle against a rather nasty alien creature, some bug-eyed, two headed being from an unpronounceable planet to put an end to the enslavement the bugs had inflicted for centuries. Victory had been brilliant and surprisingly not all that costly – on Jenny’s side at least.
As she boarded her shuttle, not wanting to deal with the aftermath, Tobi, a small child she had befriended prior to the battle, begged her to stay.
Two days extra days was all he received.
The third and fourth times Jenny thought to stick around had been because of a boy. The first was a young, reckless Boeshanian Time Agent from the 51st century going by the name of Jazz who had a penchant for narrow escapes and a dark, brooding past. It had been infatuation at first site on Jenny’s part and for a few days full of travelling and shagging, she had thought about staying with him forever. It didn’t last and, five full days after Jazz had disappeared from the inside of her ship, she landed on Arcateen V and fell head over heels for the star poet Aristeides and his words.
That affair lasted a full seven days before restlessness overcame them both and she and Aristeides went their separate ways.
( Reason number five was the result of a chance encounter. )
She always went, she never stayed. Maybe it was because of her impatient nature or maybe it was something in her DNA. Maybe it was due to the example laid out before her: Dad hadn’t even bothered to see her good and buried. Or maybe it had more to do with an overwhelming curiosity to always see what lay in the furthest reaches of the universe.
For whatever the cause, Jenny had always possessed many reasons to go in her life, a lot of excuses, too: The atmosphere’s too thick, the temperature to hot. Too many people here, not enough there. Too backwards, too forwards, too strange. Not what I’m looking for, not what I want. Too much to see out there, too much to do. Absolutely no room to run here at all. What; I’m not a dwarf!
In all her life, though, there were only ever a handful of reasons to stay:
The second time she had found any semblance of an excuse to remain planet side for longer than a day, it had been within a small farming community on Arcadia IX that Jenny thought would make for an interesting visit. Instead, she had led a struggle against a rather nasty alien creature, some bug-eyed, two headed being from an unpronounceable planet to put an end to the enslavement the bugs had inflicted for centuries. Victory had been brilliant and surprisingly not all that costly – on Jenny’s side at least.
As she boarded her shuttle, not wanting to deal with the aftermath, Tobi, a small child she had befriended prior to the battle, begged her to stay.
Two days extra days was all he received.
The third and fourth times Jenny thought to stick around had been because of a boy. The first was a young, reckless Boeshanian Time Agent from the 51st century going by the name of Jazz who had a penchant for narrow escapes and a dark, brooding past. It had been infatuation at first site on Jenny’s part and for a few days full of travelling and shagging, she had thought about staying with him forever. It didn’t last and, five full days after Jazz had disappeared from the inside of her ship, she landed on Arcateen V and fell head over heels for the star poet Aristeides and his words.
That affair lasted a full seven days before restlessness overcame them both and she and Aristeides went their separate ways.
( Reason number five was the result of a chance encounter. )
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