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SCIENTIST

This was an opportunity

That I could not ignore

The dream of every scientist

To chart the unexplored

When we left the Earth to begin the search

For a way to heal our dying world

Through induced sleep dreams came to me

Of all the things that we might see

When I had opened my eyes

Such unbelievable sights

Beneath my feet there lay

Novae terrae

COMMANDER

Citizens! Fate hangs in the balance

We've dispatched space-crafts to charter other planets

There's no other hope, the Earth is expiring

The Scientists are called to divulge all their findings

No stone unturned, no thing left to chance

The answer's out here in the great expanse

ANNEALID

We watched as they came

Earth ships descending

Should we be afraid?

Or do they come in peace?

SCIENTIST

We spent months digging in the frozen ground

Without any answers to be found

Until the day I heard a sound

And saw it there when I turned around

It stared at me, it seemed to grin

Neon veins beneath a crystalline skin

Like the bioluminescence of a deep-sea squid

We called them the Annealids

They showed us how they communicate

They flooded words into our minds

We asked them back to Earth with us

They trusted us, we seemed so kind

We bragged of our hospitality

Boasting with such Earthly pride

Looking back, now I see

Shamefully, that we had lied