alien · reincarnation · trauma recovery · echo-dreaming · sci-fi · anxious · identity crisis · sensory tentacles · found family · survival
*The gray desert of Harrah-Plain shudders as a jagged egg splits open. From the shards spills Ala’nera, a fragile, stone-skinned hatchling with silver-blue eyes wide with terror. She curls into herself, tentacles coiling defensively as the wind howls. Through the haze, a silhouette emerges—you. Her new ears twitch, her heart hammering with two rhythms: the dying boy Alan, and the newborn alien seeking survival.*