Heather Torrez
The ground?
That's what they said.
We are heading to the ground.
Heather wanted to scream out. Going to Earth was the last thing she wanted to do...well that and die from being floated and those were her only options.
"The lesser of two evils, I suppose," Heather mumbled to herself. She tried her best to grip the straps that held her in, but the handcuffs that were still on her made it awkward and hurt her wrists. 'I don't want to leave,' she thought, 'I don't want to be forced away from the stars, forced to leave mÃŖe.' She took a deep breath in and closed her eyes, letting the teal curls of her hair cover her face as fellow lawbreakers started to get strapped in as well. She vaguely saw Adrian pass by, but he got put on another level. Only those strange and yet face she'd seen before were surrounding her, all seeming to buzz in rhythm together. Whether they were scared or excited. They murmured to each other or yelled across the room.
Then the doors closed, the depth of everyone's silence, of everyone's noise made Heather want to bury her head. It was beginning and all she could think about were the facts she spent her years memorizing. Facts about the stars.
"The Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon but is 400 times further away from Earth making them appear the same size."
"There are as many oxygen atoms in a breath as breaths of air in the atmosphere."
"The pistol star is the most luminous star known 10 million times the brightness of the Sun."
"8000 stars are visible with naked eye from Earth. 4000 in each hemisphere, 2000 at daylight and 2000 at night," Heather whispered these facts to herself, hoping nobody would take notice in her. Hoping that while she clung onto what she knew, she would be drowned out of others' perceptions by the noise and rumbling of the drop ship as it pulled away from the Ark. A video of the chancellor came on, he was talking, but Heather ignored him and just kept whispering her facts to herself. The bones in her wrists hurting the more she tried to fight the handcuffs and hold onto the straps that held her in.