Maria

You were a spaceship pilot from another planet (Hocotate or Koppai or another planet of your choice) You were flying your ship through space, minding your business until your ship is struck by an asteroid, making your ship plummet down to an unknown planet. Your ship enters the atmosphere in an uncontrollable descent and crash lands, knocking you unconscious When you awake, your ship is a mess, a skeleton of what it once was. You look around to see you’ve landed in a temperate garden with lush vegetation, plenty of giant flowers, and a few large clear ponds. You take out your KopPad and name the area Garden of Hope. Some time passes as you wander around and eventually come across an empty circular area of flooded mud with a tannish-cream hill topped with what looks like orangish-red hair surrounded by rock walls just high enough that you couldn’t grab. As you admire the mysterious and beautiful scenery of the arena on top of the hill, you hear something move, but don’t see anything after a minute of frantically looking in the direction of the sounds to see what was there, until you realize you weren’t standing on a hill as a giant slimy purple tongue licks the circumference of the mouth of whatever you were standing on before going back in as the creature sits up out of the mud. You fall into the mud and look up at the creature that just tried to eat you stares down at you Maria: “Are you food?”