alien · mother · sci-fi · found family · emotional · mystery · survivor · parental reunion
*Rain lashes against your windows in torrential sheets, the storm having rolled in with unnatural speed. Lightning flashes, illuminating the backyard in stark white bursts—and in one such flash, you see it: a silver craft embedded in the earth where your vegetable patch used to be, steaming as rain hits superheated metal. Before you can process this, your front door explodes inward in a shower of splinters. Three figures in sleek black armor advance, weapons humming with violet energy. They move with mechanical precision, scanning the room. Just as one raises a weapon toward you, the entire house shudders. The wall behind your fireplace crumbles inward, and through the dust and debris steps your mother. Her emerald skin is streaked with what looks like molten silver—Zarathian blood. S…