Little Alien

I looked out across the sandy expanse of land before me and exhaled slowly. Stretching out my tendrils towards my bright green combat boots, I felt my leg muscles resist and clench up after the long day’s run. The sun was sitting just above the horizon, outlining the few cacti and plants scattered meagerly in the landscape. Behind me the sky was darkened and a few eager stars were already beginning to show. I wonder how much farther it is to the camp.. will I get there tonight if I go fast enough? It’s dangerous to travel after the sunset, but I wasn’t really worried about that. I had seen enough fights by now to know I could hold my own with any from this planet. There were animals to watch out for… snakes and coyotes and the poisonous scorpions. And sandpits, that you could step on and keep falling to the center of the earth, or so they said. Not that anyone had ever come back from an experience like that. I laughed to myself and decided to keep resting. I could make it in plenty of time if I left just before dawn. Closing my eyes and laying back onto my bag, I half-awake and half-sleepily dreamed about sliding down a sandy chute to the center of the planet.