Chapter XII: THE VOYAGE OF THE FREEDOMHe had never felt so small, as if he were no more than a speck of dust in the cosmos. The ship that had once seemed so large, felt minuscule in this infinite space. Miles and miles of dark ocean stretched out around him as far as his eye could see. Above him, a star-filled sky reached down to the rolling waves. Overwhelming quietness and stillness wrapped him in a powerful cloak of warmth and anonymity.
Witon stood at the wheel, guiding the Freedom toward their destiny, toward their new home.
The powerful thought thrilled him, stars all his own bursting in his pale silver eyes as they searched the unfamiliar heavens above him. It would be a new world, he would see to it, no matter what the sacrifice; a world where all the myriad creatures of his home
