Voyage: Embarkation #2 Longing

Kal is ready to leave his strange home and is about to embark on a journey to even stranger worlds. After four years of exile, he can finally escape into the metaxia, the unspace between universes, and explore alternate Earths. Supremely advanced cultures and natural wonders of immeasurable beauty await him. However, there exist also worlds mired in social decay, and those filled with dangerous, exotic forms of life. Armed only with defensive nanotech and a computer pad, Kal travels from one alternate Earth to another. Navigating the infinity of possibilities, he embarks on a new kind of voyage, a voyage along the catastrophe of notions. ------------ Kal has been having the same dream every night for the past week. Fed up, he searches for an alternate Earth to match his dream's setting, and discovers Ydora. It is the first alternate Earth he will visit inhabited by humans, and in doing so, will be forced to reveal secrets he would rather remain hidden. Voyage: Embarkation Episode #2 "Longing" is about 14,000 words long.