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

o b s e s s i v e - co m p u l s i v e d i s o r d e r [Noun.] 


a mental condition where a person experiences persistent, intrusive thoughts that cause distress and performs repetitive physical/mental acts in order to prevent or counteract the thoughts and relieve the distress 


The mucky landscape slowly transformed over time. From large, mushroom structures and mucky hills to small, ice-covered stump-like plants with frosted over plains. The only clear distinction between the biomes was that their site had a dark brown, nearly black mud that made up the earth part of it. This site went immediately into dark pink or red color. This color supposedly incased the entirety of the site. The oddity of that abruptness was quick to be forgotten in all the postings made by the scientists on site. 


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