[ WP ] You are apart of the middle generation of a colonizing space craft , born too late to have seen Earth , and too soon to live to see your destination . Write about one of your adventures .

“ Emeryx! Wait up! ” Rylan runs after his friend. Their feet pound the metal of the floor as the two boys race the corridors of the Colony Ship Elysium. Dodging around the other inhabitants of the ship, some who laugh at the boys, others who look frustrated with their antics, they head towards some of the higher levels of the ship. 
 
 “ Lan! Come on! ” Emeryx calls back. He disappears into a larger room, Rylan following after him at a quick run. Rylan mutters an adult curse under his breath, glancing around at all the adults around him. He shouldn ’ t know the word but his parents are very free with their words. 
 
 “ Emeryx! Where ’ d you go? ” 
 
 “ Over here! ” Rylan turns, facing towards the atrium. Emeryx stands there, waving at Rylan with a big grin. Rylan grumbles, dodging through the crowd to join him. 
 
 “ Where are we going? ” Rylan gives a sigh, crossing his arms. 
 
 “ Just come with me! ” Emeryx bounces on the balls of his feet, darting away into the atrium. 
 
 “ Ryx! We can ’ t… ” Rylan glances around before giving another curse, dodging through the door to follow him. The smell of green things is overpowering, the atriums built to sustain the population with oxygen and food. The door shuts hard behind him, the two of them in the atrium like they shouldn ’ t be right now. “ Ryx! Ryx! ” Rylan keeps his voice low. 
 
 “ Lan, come on! ” Emeryx ’ s voice comes from further into the atrium, Rylan having no choice but to follow the sound. He follows some of the tracks in the dirt, running through some of the rows of tall plants. Rylan reaches another spot, following Emeryx into some of the secret paths through the innards of the giant ship. 
 
 Rylan is grumbling, wiping his face of the mess of dust that got stuck to it when he arrives at the other side. The first thing the notices is that the air is notably thinner. It ’ s taking a toll on him to breathe in each time. Emeryx is standing below one of the giant bubbles, looking upward with a couple of the other kids appearing from other vents. 
 
 Joining him, Rylan turns his gaze upward. The closer stars seem to blur, the further away ones not seeming to move very much at all. But close, they ’ re passing a giant of a star, a roiling creature. Nothing that Rylan hasn ’ t seen before of course. 
 
 “ Look, look! ” Emeryx points, finger barely in Rylan ’ s vision. A couple of the other kids ‘ ooh ’ at it. Rylan lazily follows the direction of the finger. Then he focuses more. 
 
 At the edge of their vision, hidden behind the star and becoming visible as they pass it, the star ’ s roiling fires are being pulled away into a singular point. A black hole, within spotting distance of the CS Elysium. He has no idea how Emeryx found out about it but he ’ s thankful he did. 
 
 “ That ’ s awesome. ” Rylan mutters under his breath, staring out at the landscape of stars. 
 
 “ I know. ” Emeryx sounds smug, Rylan imagining the grin on his face. They watch the sight as it comes further and further into their line of vision. “ It was supposed to be going supernova, but the expansion put it right in the same line as the black hole. So the material keeps getting sucked away. ” 
 
 The group lapses into silence, continuing to watch. It stays in sight for long enough that Rylan is almost sure that their course has been altered by the black hole. Either way, when it finally fades out of sight from the group of kids in the bubble, they all look at each other. A few chatting merrily amongst themselves as they look around. 
 
 Emeryx starts over to a different area of the dome however, pulling some tools from his belt and seeming to start work. Rylan takes a seat beside him, looking out at the group of kids that he knows in passing but he ’ s too shy to really speak to in general. 
 
 “ Is the reason we got up here because you put a job off and waited? ” 
 
 “ Un-huh. ” Emeryx ’ s tongue is stuck out from between his lips. 
 
 “ Cos we can sneak through here unlike the adults? ” 
 
 “ Un-huh. ” 
 
 “ Cool. When do you give the card back for the Taidlir Atrium? ” 
 
 “ I made a copy. Took me a while. ” Rylan gapes at him. 
 
 “ You could get in serious trouble for that! ” Emeryx gives him a grin at the statement. 
 
 “ And? I like being up here, it ’ s pretty awesome. ” The air seems to grow thicker, easier to breathe. Rylan looks out of the bubble. Usually such places were full of people. This seems to be only for kids thanks to the size of the corridors headed to it. “ After the other entrances broke, only kids our size can get up here. ” Emeryx looks up at the vision outside the glass. “ It ’ s nice. ” 
 
 Rylan hums, looking up at the vastness of space. “ Yeah, it is. ”
