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

 a thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid. 


Enya had never been drowned before, something she was pretty happy about. The feeling of finally being able to drag those first breaths through tortured lungs was almost as bad as the feeling of her chest trying to combust under the water’s pressure. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she finally coughed up the foreign liquid. It was killer. Her body flipped over the other way so her face was directed to the floor. Which made it much easier to throw up everything stuck in her system. 


By the time she was done, she was hunched over in shock while hyperventilating. Her body was trying to make up for whatever air she had to go without. Whoever was by her side pulled her into their body and cooed comforting words into her ear. All she recognized was the feeling of their hands being coated in a liquid that was more dense than water. 


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