The Long Way Home
25 Jun 2022Kik Ravendish
Lost Souls 3 Expedition, The Fatherhood's third iteration of the forever march in the black. The days drag on. Jump, wait, jump ad infinitum. "What am I doing out here?", Kik asks himself. "Is this what space madness looks like?"Along the way he has photo and cartographed thousands of beauties and mysteries alike.
Water floats, suspended in the constrained atmosphere of Hairy Wanda. Sometimes, if Kik is lucky he can spot water globules merging together, their surface tensions tugging at each other until they become one. For this reason, he hasn't fixed the ENCU condenser.
Hairy Wanda, carry me home. He starts to hum and considers writing a ballad. "The Ballad of Hairy Wanda" Kik says aloud....
I could leave the Fleet Carrier behind.... derelict out here in the black. Leave the Loft as an homage to homesickness...
Long for battle
Long for commerce
Long for transport
Long for the endless panoply of star ports
Long for broken rocks
Long for jewels
Long for the seedy bars in backwater systems