Chapter 2, Part 2, The girl from the stars

The trip took longer than she had anticipated. The boy, Lonely, wouldn't stop asking questions, and it was starting to get annoying. 

"So how are the ships powered?" He asked another mind-numbing question. 

"Cosmic energy." She answered, but in her mind, she was wondering how humans could know so little about themselves and the universe they live in.

"Are there others like you?"

"Like what?"

"Mind-numbingly to the point." 

"Ha ha." Eos rolled her eyes. 

"Just picking. No, I meant like the same species or...?"

"You're asking if all people in space are Starlin?"

"If that's what you are, then yes." 

Eos inhaled a deep breath, getting ready to explain a long story, "Yes, there are other star people, many cheerful and many cold. They live much longer than humans, well, most species really. It started many eons ago after the lifeless war, when the last Starlin started to go out. He planted fountains all over the universe that would unknowingly give any person who drank from it a much longer life. One was on earth, I believe you humans called it the fountain of youth. He used the last of his power to travel around the universe to pick up the newborns and teach them our way of life. We repopulated and destroyed the fountains."

"And the others?" Lonely asked curiously. 

"Hate us. For not sharing the power with them, they don't understand that once you drink...you forget. You forget everything. We were powerful and content being alone in our small corner of the universe, but others want our power. There are small planets around ours, with creatures who want a taste of our power, but they've sat in silence for the last hundred years until.....well, until the Foe came." Eos trailed off. She didn't want to talk about that. Not now. 

"Foe? Is that a name?" 

"Yes. Now, no more questions, please, Lonely. We're almost there."