Planet Earth is blue 10

Waiting in the darkness beneath the trees I looked up at the stars. The smell of the pine needles brought back childhood dreams and I tried to imagine the sound of my mother’s voice calling me home. It was good to be back on Earth but the memories I was looking for remained as elusive as ever.

In the distance three lights moved in the night sky – the angeli always patrolling, always hunting down those of us who knew what they were. Perhaps there were others like myself scraping out a living in these forests, perhaps …

My thoughts were interrupted by the chill of a gun barrel against my neck. She was good, very good; I hadn’t heard a thing.

‘Hello Lily,’ I said, not moving a muscle.

‘Did you think I wouldn’t follow you?’ came the reply. ‘What did you tell that one on the moon? What’s the deal?’

‘To hand you in to them,’ I replied simply and felt the gun tremble ever so slightly. ‘Although I won’t. They’re scum.’

In the silence I could hear her breathing.

‘But how can I trust you?’

‘You can’t’

A pair of eyes a little way off, watched with interest.