Partial Excerpt from Chapter 1

   He lay in the ditch next to the deserted road. Dust flew around him as he tried to make sense of his recent memories. He was on the verge of passing out. The last thing he remembered was crashing the spaceship nearby.

   There was a flash of orange light, and he walked through a field made of something strange. The tall stalks were green, with something yellow growing under a green covering. He pulled one of the oblong yellow things off the stalk and peeled off the green covering. He smelled it but didn’t know what to compare it to. Nothing like this grew from where he came from. He tossed the thing to the ground and continued through the field. His body was unharmed, but he felt disoriented due to the strange atmosphere of the blue planet.

   He observed something moving toward him on a dark river-like substance. As the strange contraption drew nearer, he saw a male humanoid who was old. It happened so fast—had the man hit him? Was that how he got in the ditch? Was that the reason he couldn’t move? That was where things became fuzzy. His eyes danced across the night sky as he attempted to put the pieces together. Did he know the man? Was he a friend or foe? Was he the reason he was on this strange planet? His eyes became heavy, and everything went dark.

   He dreamed of a beautiful place that was very different from where he was now. He couldn’t see the faces of the people walking down the orange-paved streets. Did he know these people, or were they figments of his imagination? Where was this strange yet familiar place? Was this where he was from, or had he visited? Was it close by? The images of fur-like trees, dome-shaped buildings, and a metallic sphere in the center of a large pedestal faded as he began hearing different voices coming from above him. He tried to open his eyes, but his strength was depleted. The voices slowly drifted away, becoming an echo in the distance before disappearing altogether.