nefelibata (noun.)
     cloud walker
     one who does not obey the conventions of society, literature, or art

Biologist Elain Mavka is sent to a foreign planet recently named Miea.  A place where she gets free range to explore, document, and report the findings of site 27-43. Otherwise known as the Mushroom Forest. What seems to be beautiful and mysterious turns out to be just that. Where Elain is the first explorer to make contact with humanoid aliens. Though are they really the aliens when she is on their planet?

Her only company on this journey is young Milo Zephyr, who is still in his training wheels, and Selcouth, a companion she encounters soon after their arrival. Well, them and the strange feeling that they are being watched.
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On another side of the spectrum, the older sister (Enya) of her infant brother (Kenton) are looking for a way to survive up in the station effectively named Head Quarters. Her with an assistant's job to keep everything in order on the ship. Then, with no explanation, there was a sudden blaring siren and flashing red lights. A guard she knew, who was a few years older than her, marches them straight to an escape pod. Sending them to a planet they've never known before.

The three of them landed on completely unexplored territory of this planet and it didn't take long for Enya to stumble into a nine-foot monster of a creature. Or, rather, it stumbled into her.

Nefelibata

 harmful or annoying levels of noise, as from airplanes, industry, etc 


The rest of the day came and went. Everything was now prepared for the journey, and she was ushering in the slow Selcouth into the open back. Milo was in the front, getting the seat into a comfortable position and everything calibrated. 


It was no surprise that he knew more about it than she did. Not because he was a man, but simply because she didn’t actually understand anything about how these vehicles worked. She wasn’t in the best financial state for the longest time, so she stuck to the train systems and even that got to be expensive. 


Selcouth was maybe halfway in, his front legs and one extra were already in the vehicle, but he had stopped moving entirely. Elain huffed in frustration, trying to push him farther up without having to dirty her clothes with his slimy texture. The big loaf didn’t move an inch. 
