A Decent Land — Chapter One
Arrival
5 min readApr 22, 2022
It was the binary star that attracted our ship. Its perpendicular twirls winked from a cosmic horizon. Then, our ark was on its five-hundredth generation (or somewhere thereabouts). Now we’re nearing six-hundred — a milestone — and the system is closer in reach. We sucked the sap of innumerable suns on a pinball trajectory to hope. Two at once may just be enough to sustain our enormous demands. There…
