Helen entered a bus ship that was loading up with passengers. She sat at her seat quietly until someone approached.

"This uh, seat taken?"

"Oh no it's not, you can your meg can sit here too!"

"Uh, but aren't you a hohun? You know this is a ship off planet, right?"

"Yeah I know, bitch. Scary thing. Heard our species had something like this in the past, but it was a metal bird, and I don't think it flew higher than the clouds."

"Oh, an airplane!"

"Yeah one of those. When mother appeared, we got you know, tons of peace but lost all the fancy stuff like that. Only hear about them in stories now."

"Well I guess you don't need much if you live on a peaceful planet, and it's going to be even safer now that this event is over, so why are you leaving?"

"Cause I'm a fucking goner if I don't. One of you aliens shot me in the leg."

"..........................................."

"Mother can't help if you're already hurt. She can only protect you. I heard you aliens have fancy equipment and all of that. Could fix a leg, apparently could even replace a leg if it can't be fixed.

Mother don't allow stuff like that. Caused too many wars. Guess it's a bit of give and take you know. Never gotta die from war or nothin' but you fall and break and leg and you'll be returning to mother, that's it."

"I'm sorry that happened....."

"Why you sorry? You ain't cause a thing."

"I kind of did........."

"Nope. I watched what happened, bitch, everyone was watching. Not your fault."

"Sorry your friend having some weird issues. I saw yous two, Seemed like you were having a lot of fun. Not sure why your friend picked a guy who'd kill a man for having fun with his pal."

"It's......."

"......really complicated."

"I can tell. Hope you're ok. You and me, we're too nice, someone's gonna hurt us eventually. What we do when that happens, we'll have to decide. Universe's a scary place."

"Yeah......"

"Goin' to be honest, the real reason I sat by you today wasn't to talk to you about some harsh stuff........."

"But because I want to see photos of that worm on your magic box."

"Oh oh!!!!! Yeah I've taken tons! I love her a whole lot, let me show you this photo where I put a little top hat-"