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

 calm (someone) or make them sleep by administering a sedative drug. 


For the rest of the rather cramped ride, Elain was in and out. Never truly there and never truly gone. Everything she had been thinking about saying to the ones they were about to meet went up in smoke rather quickly. With the pain of each breath, she didn’t really have it in her to plan out a whole speech. Which made her feel like a terrible host. The woman was basically the one organizing this get together at this point. Yet, she could barely keep her eyes open. How was she supposed to get everything she wanted done on this field trip if she was too busy trying to mend bones? 


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