He stood on the rock-like shore and watched the waves. This was what he imagined Earth was like, although with three extra moons, the tides were less predictable on their new planet.
The ship traveled for a century to reach their new world and everyone was eager to get to work setting up the new colony. Everyone but him. Traveling was all he’d ever known, and now that they had arrived, he was restless.
So he quietly fabricated a boat and set out to do the job that nobody else wanted. He would chart the seas of their new home.

“Rossglass shore” by conall.. is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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