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and over, questions she longed to ask him but lacked the courage to. Even if she were brave enough to approach him, she'd have to find him first. Since their last encounter, she hadn't seen him since.
    He was avoiding her. That was obvious. 'Why' was yet another question added to the many on the list. She tried not to feel slighted by his behaviour but she couldn't help it. Worse yet that she'd started to feel a little more for him than was wise. She barely knew him and clearly he had something against her. Was it because she was a human? He disliked her kind for what they'd done to his uncle. Perhaps that was why he wouldn't touch her? Perhaps it shamed him… disturbed him to be intimate with a being he despised?
    Maya felt sick at the thought and she longed to be off the ship, far away from Lir. She comforted herself with the knowledge that soon she'd be back on Earth where everything stayed the same. No strange and new occurrences, no zipping around in space, no growing feelings for some alien guy who had a penchant for sending mixed messages.
    She'd emulate Lir for the duration of the trip. Hide away somewhere until they arrived at Aqueloc and then demand a prompt return to her home planet. How she intended to manage the trip back home all alone with him again she didn't know.
     

     
    More time passed. Maya still wasn't sure how many hours or days the time equated to. But as it went by, she'd set up a routine: sleep, eat, entertainment room, gym. The equipment in the gym looked intimidating at first, but before their last encounter, Lir had shown her how to utilize some of them. Alien exercise equipment was insane. She was sweating buckets after a mere few minutes of use. No wonder Lir was so toned.
    There was a library in the entertainment room too, and Maya was delighted to discover it translated its alien text into English when she touched the holographic image. How did it know English was her first language? How did it even know she wasn't alien? The wonders of alien technology never ceased to amaze Maya. It made things seemed so dull and outdated on Earth.
    She wondered what Aqueloc would be like. She'd never asked Lir. Was it like Earth with divisions of land and seas? Was it hospitable for humans to live there? How would she even be able to breathe its air when she finally got there? Lir had found her suffocating the first time they met. She'd felt like someone had affixed a pump to her lungs and was rapidly filling them with more oxygen than her body could handle at the time. She'd never realized it was possible to die from oxygen overdose until that moment.
    Thankfully, Lir had adjusted it. He'd made various changes to accommodate her on the ship, actually. His actions didn't reflect his hate for her kind. If he'd really hated her, he wouldn't have given a shit whether or not she was comfortable…right?
    It didn't matter. She had to stop thinking about Lir. She had to begin the process of purging him from her mind because soon he would no longer be in her life. Walking into the entertainment room, she moved around the circular tables. She'd fiddled with most of them to the point of boredom. She wanted to try something new and engaging.
    She wandered deeper into the room, further than she'd ever been. All this time, she'd not noticed the room was divided into two. In one half were the circular tables where she'd spent most of her time and in the other half was one larger table. On the floor just in front of the table was a wide, charcoal-grey circle with a shiny, metallic material around its edge.
    Curiosity bid her forward. The instant she stepped onto the grey circle, holographic images of beautiful mountains, jungles, and seas surrounded her. She looked around at all the images in amazement then lifted a hand to touch one featuring a scenic mountain area. Maya's awe increased tenfold when the ship's surroundings were suddenly replaced by sloping hills covered with grass and trees.
    Seriously, is there