Another world gazed through all the smoke and grease, staring longingly at everything they could not possess, weeping and cheering as they burned it all down in jealousy. Things could have gone so much better, so many lives could have been saved if they had just been allowed to come through.
When we found them, they were so frightened of our clear skies and soft earth that they sealed the entrypoint straight away. We thought we'd seen the last of them until they began peeping out as us in the night, lighting up the otherwise pitch black desert with a miasma of sickly green-grey hues.
Their world seemed to be bathed in this light, their sun was a bright emerald that shone dimly through thick, glossy clouds that left a sulphuric scent in the air all around their portals. They looked so very human but there was something too hungry in their eyes, something too sharp about their teeth for us to feel at ease around them.
We talked ourselves into believing that we were safe and they were safe and we'd finally found life like us out there in the universe. We didn't realise how similar they truly were until great jets of fire and metal came bursting through the portals, spreading with unnatural ease through the desert and leaving nothing but burning carcases in its wake.
They watched us burn, waiting for the fires to settle so they could merge their world and ours and buy themselves a few more years. We don't know how long they've been doing this for but as we wait in the polar zones of the world, watching as the ocean evaporates before our eyes, listening to the dying screams of every living thing that called this world home, we couldn't help but wonder.
Would we have waited so long to do the same?
When we found them, they were so frightened of our clear skies and soft earth that they sealed the entrypoint straight away. We thought we'd seen the last of them until they began peeping out as us in the night, lighting up the otherwise pitch black desert with a miasma of sickly green-grey hues.
Their world seemed to be bathed in this light, their sun was a bright emerald that shone dimly through thick, glossy clouds that left a sulphuric scent in the air all around their portals. They looked so very human but there was something too hungry in their eyes, something too sharp about their teeth for us to feel at ease around them.
We talked ourselves into believing that we were safe and they were safe and we'd finally found life like us out there in the universe. We didn't realise how similar they truly were until great jets of fire and metal came bursting through the portals, spreading with unnatural ease through the desert and leaving nothing but burning carcases in its wake.
They watched us burn, waiting for the fires to settle so they could merge their world and ours and buy themselves a few more years. We don't know how long they've been doing this for but as we wait in the polar zones of the world, watching as the ocean evaporates before our eyes, listening to the dying screams of every living thing that called this world home, we couldn't help but wonder.
Would we have waited so long to do the same?
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