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

 having or relating to two poles of extremities. 


They were walking through the rest of that night, then all throughout the day as well. Slowly the terrain began to morph as they moved further and further from the damaged escape pod. If they were ever to think of a rescue, they would need to remember where they crash landed. It would be pinging a rescue ship no matter how long it sat and rotted. She didn’t think anyone would be able to come in a long while, but the thought was still somewhat comforting to her. 


The biome went from a simple muskeg and to a large riverway that all connected to one another through rapids. The only thing to separate the rivers were plateau-like hills. From what she could see, after that was some sort of ocean. The ruby water had slowly melted away into a brown, rust color instead. She didn’t know which she preferred to look at. They were both ominous in their own ways. 


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