“It’s way better up here than
down below.” The pale-lilac armoured robot tilted her head up towards space, as
she sat - lounged out against the rough, concave wall of the crater.
“What do you mean?” The darker
blue armoured robot replied, standing near the centre of the crater - looking
back at his female counterpart.
“The stars, the hovercrafts… you
can just see everything from here.”
They both looked up unto the
heavens, taking in a moment of pure silence that lingered on the moon’s
surface. They were outside the colony’s barriers, roaming free on the
un-inhabitant parts of the Earth’s moon. To humans, the silence outside a
habitable atmosphere would be too surreal for their likings. To these robots,
it was nothing short of another characteristic that made up the universe.
Except for the hovercrafts which
drifted left and right across the celestial chicane, everything felt oddly
lifeless. Technically speaking, the fur-coated robots were lifeless too, if all
for only their batteries, with energy surging through every wire and fibre
optic vein in their artificial interiors. Yet, they could still appreciate the majesty of those twinkling dots of
hydrogen and helium thousands upon thousands of light years ahead of them. And the neon dots
that zipped right past them at blistering speeds, just a couple of hundred
miles away.
“You’re right, Leonie. You don’t get this view
on Earth, that’s for sure.”
“Not at all. Earth’s too
illuminated… I wonder has space travel also lessened their appreciation of
looking at the stars?”
If there was one thing that
fascinated Triggs about Leonie, it was how she questioned things. She was all
the more curious than he was, and it set his mind into deep thought. Not that
he himself wasn’t curious; both of them were new to this world. Leonie asked
herself things, and it wouldn’t matter to her if she found out now or never at
all. Triggs, on the other hand, would become so engrossed with even the
tiniest, trivial riddles that he would stop at nothing until
he found out their meaning.
Bearing in mind, with their line
of duty, that was a good trait. But for everything else, it was a burden to be
weighed down with unanswered inquiries.
(So, I tried writing for once. A refreshing change of pace I must say. But I'm no *insert name of great author here*. Yeah, I really don't read novels hardly.)
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