Prompt #8 Free

The starship "Tivwyn's Fall" flew with a loud swoosh out of the atmosphere, and then in silence as it entered the edge of the atmosphere into space, as there was nothing for the sound to travel in. Unlike the few other ships, this ship did not accelerate to light travel, it hung behind. It looked like a person looking longlingly at a memory.

Jordina walked into the control room, the light reflecting off her green skin, giving a couple monitors a greenish tint. Matron was sitting in front of the steering controls, looking out the large window in front of the dashboard at the planet they were leaving.

"What made you leave?" Jordina asked Matron thoughtfully.

Without looking up, he said, "Freedom."

Jordina sat in the swivel chair across from him, "Rebellious freedom? Or freedom from the life?"

"Neither." Matron turned to face her. He looked human, but the bumps with the holes in them clearly made him an alien.

"My tribe has a tradition, where when every child comes of age, they are sent off to a planet to visit a species known as 'The MapMakers.' They go around the entire universe mapping every planet and every segment of the universe. They give you a map of a location, and you go there to find your destiny. That is what my tribe does."

"That does not sound like freedom to me," Jordina commented.

"You are right, it doesn't. I wasn't going to take the map meant for me. I was going to choose my own map. Choose my own freedom. But with the whole species gone without a trace, unfortunately my destiny was chosen for me. I have to find where the race of MapMakers went. And that makes me have to go back to the one place I did not want to go: home. So much for freedom."

He turned the ship around and accelerated to light travel. Off to the next segment of there travel. The prison planet known as Morscarcina. The most horrible place in the galaxy. The place were the inmates are doomed to live forever. That is there punishment. Living in a land where people beg for death.