So, there it was, just like Papa said it would be. Big, blue, and bright. The brilliant color that filled the windows burned in Leslie's young eyes. Big, blue, and bright they were, just like the star outside the spaceport. She'd been scared to go, to leave the safety of solid ground; ground that didn't spin beneath her feet. Of course, now being the age of eight, Leslie couldn't admit this to anyone. Especially Papa.           ...

Tear filled eyes made for a difficult return journey for the Gusheara twins. It’d been far too long since either of them had set foot on the snow-covered plains of the icy moon I2. The last time that had happened they had lived as a happy, loving family. But now… neither of them had the heart to explain to their mother what had transpired on the asteroid. Even now, after hours of endless sobbing, Neenah’s eyes hadn’t become bloodshot. Somehow,...

Warmth was often understood as a forgotten luxury to those who dwelled on Ielidon’s frozen moon. I2 was its technical name, but the common folk regarded it as Ielidon’s Curse. Whether it was the fact that the moon was flipped on its side according to the galactic plane or that Ielidon itself was a gas giant, I2 was a cursed world. Its icy poles were considered the ‘habitable zones’ of the large world, as its equator only ever saw the...