Seeking out new worlds | Glowfic Constellation

The secrets of Delver technology could not resist decryption forever. While the tools they wielded are deeply weird, jealously guarded, and immensely complicated, living beings built the tools that brought aliens to the dragons' first world. The great calamity left ruins aplenty behind, and once grown the Seeker gathered these old tools as their very favorite sort of treasure. Dragons are not intelligent in quite the same way as a No-Tail, but they are far from stupid. They live forever and can be very determined if they set their mind to it.

The Seeker brought all its tools and treasure along with it when the world was evacuated ahead of the Tailless's relentless growth and hunger for resources. It studied under the great elder Darktooth on the new world, studied together with Darktooth (an arrangement not very common with dragons, as they are not particularly social), for a very long time. And eventually, by application of the hard claws of experiment and calculation and theorizing, the universe revealed its workings, cold and precise and mathematical. Creating more and more tools of the highest sophistication, and teaching others of its kind in exchange for wealth, and even spawning offspring and guiding them to adulthood, was all satisfying for a long while, but eventually... He got bored.

And so, the Seeker wondered if the long sleep for the journey between stars was really necessary, and got to work seeing about making it not. He managed it eventually, and built a starship, and went exploring. Stars come in a beautiful variety of kinds, and the worlds around them do too, but very, very few bear any sign of life. They are mostly barren and empty.

...Oh, this one is emitting curious amounts of low-frequency light. Worth investigating. Pushing a starship faster than light requires a touch of magic (at least for now), which he provides.

In the outer solar system of a certain star, well above the plane of the ecliptic, a black sphere the size of a city block appears and has a look around with powerful telescopes.

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Hello!

Everything is blurry. You're both very tall.

"Probably your vision'll get better over time."

"And you'll get taller!"

"Do you want some food? We got you some ground beef. And cooked a bit and left some raw so you can see which you like."

He looks around at the garden. He looks up at the tree that he's been under all this time, twisting his neck around without moving his body.

...I think it's the goo.

...Yes, I'm very hungry.

Dishes of ground beef! That one's cooked and that one's raw.

He likes them both. They're not better or worse, just... Different. He keeps looking around at the garden and the big house and everything else. He puts his head down by his wingtips and carefully inspects his claws.

I thought I would be sleepy but everything is so big and bright that I'm not! I'm glad I hatched! You two do not look how I imagined even though you thought about what you look like at me!

"Huh, how are we different?"

I can see your heat and your spirits! And the clothes are different.

"Well, we wear different clothes every day."

Okay.

He's a little confused by that, he sends, but isn't going to let it bother him.

He finishes the plates of meat and starts wandering the garden.

"The clothes get dirty and need to be washed, plus it's fun to change how we look."

They follow him at a distance of a few yards.

Changing how you look sounds fun!

He cranes his neck around to look at the clothes.

...They look hard to move in, though, he muses.

"It's not hard for us, but maybe it would be for you, even if clothes were made for your shape."

I can try it. Maybe necklaces?

He starts walking again.

"Necklaces are jewelry, not clothes, but you can try one if you like!"

He does that tail-flick that is the Draak equivalent of a nod. He wanders and thinks about trees and flowers.

...He would be happy to just wander in the garden for a while but do they want something since they're following him?

They just think he's fun to watch! Wandering in the garden is a fine thing to do.

...Okay. He wanders. He often glances at them to make sure they aren't sneaking up on him. He climbs a trellis and peers out at the garden from this new perspective.

Is a forest much different? Like where my sister is?

"It has a lot more trees. Do you want to see? They're taking pictures of her!"

I want to see a forest!

They can show him pictures of his sister in the forest!

He cares a lot more about the forest than his sister. Now he wants to know how tall different kinds of trees are and how fast they grow!

They can sure look that up for him!

After some more garden exploring and a short nap he wants to see the inside of the house.

Here it is! The entryway has a plush rug and console tables with potted plants and suncatchers in the windows and nice tile walls and flagstone flooring.