Infinity by Charles E. Borjas, E. Michaels, Chester Johnson

and your daughters will become vagabonds on this planet.
The other creatures will not help you. There is only the darkness to turn to;
the creatures of darkness and I rule over them too. There is no other way off
of this planet.”
    “Let’s giver her
what she wants, Mother,” says the eldest sister Kyn. “and let’s leave this
frightening place.” The other sisters quickly agree, being revolted and terrified
at the awesome beings before them.
    While Dvora
keeps glowering at Salocina, Ophelia and Yeralai sneak into the Bird of Prey
and grab the urn Dvora put Caratrah’s remains in. They rush back outside
holding it in the air. Ophelia tosses it with all the strength she can muster
up. All eyes are on it as it sails over Dvora’s head, despite her attempt to
grab it as it flies by her. The urn lands at the feet of Salocina.
    “No...no—,”
Screeches Dvora. But it is too late. Salocina snatches up the urn and shape
shifts into a mist that blows away with the wind. The rest of the beings
surrounding the vessel turn and leave; some of them fast and some slow, all of
them turning back several times to see Dvora and her daughters one more time.
    “Mother...mother,”
says Kathara, “We must leave this place before they destroy our spaceship. We
have to go now. Let us go.” The sisters help Dvora to her feet. She is not used
to being so weak and is feeling more human than Quewythian.
    “It’s
okay...it’s okay, my daughters,” she mumbles. “There are plenty of sorcerers
and sorceresses in the universe.”

Chapter 9: A New World

 
    Captain’s
Chronicles: I, Cruise, and my soul mate Millennia have been traveling the
universe together for more than two hundred of Earth’s years. Time has not
affected us quite so much as we have been caught up in warps, wormholes, novae,
and have also sling shot around stars. So far we have not yet entered any star
systems that our physiology could not handle. Radiation, gamma rays, x-rays,
and even radioactive space rock have no effect on us. Unfortunately I could not
say the same of many of the crewmembers of Infinity and some of our other
vessels. Many of our fellow space travellers have found that their bodies aged
beyond being able to endure space travel anymore.
    When that happens,
after Infinity had scanned the solar system for suitable worlds, we stop by a
nearby planet and let them land. We let them keep a vessel for their own
survival and future survival, and also for their posterity, since they all now
had families. These colonists would also be part of our long string of
communication bases we were setting up along the way to Earth.
    Infinity’s
sensors could pick up the heartbeats and pulse, blood pressure and brain
activity of any creature on any of the planets they were near, even before they
got to a galaxy. She also read the biorhythm and scanned all records of
personnel to find planets that were to their liking, but none of them were
earth. None of the galaxies was the Milky Way.
    “Darling,” said Cruise
to Millennia, “Infinity is evolving, even as we are.”
    “I wouldn’t have
believed it if you hadn’t told me, my love,” replied Millennia, “but I see now
also that she has actually grown.”
    “Amazingly, she
is now five times the size of my native city on Cassiopeia,” Cruise returns the
talk. “I’m programming Infinity to find us a world to make our new base of
operations. We need to put her down, and the four remaining vessels. Infinity tells
me we have crossed a quadrant of the universe. Do you know what that means?”
    “Yes, my sweet,”
replies Millennia. “We are closer to our destination, and we need a place to
call home.”
    “The crew has
already procreated,” Cruise smiles and looks down at Millennia’s oversized
abdomen. “So have we.”
    “This one is a
girl, my love.” Millennia shifts her position. “I will call her Quadaina,
spelled with a “Q” but pronounced like a “K”. Because she will be the first
child