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If he was alive and breathing, he’d feel sick to his stomach, but this was the only way to become free. For the first time in eight years, Rambley wasn’t alone, yet his fear of ending up alone again ultimately pushed him to the extreme. The past few hours had been very eventful with his human companion…a person who managed to come to Indigo Park: not to vandalize, but to help the raccoon make the place great again for future guests! For the first time since he could remember: Rambley felt alive. Unfortunately, he wasn’t a living creature, but a digital avatar…and the displays that lay throughout the park that he used to project himself were his prison. Heck, he really wasn’t a raccoon to begin with…it’s just what he was made into…what he was programmed to be. The AI was supposed to be the mascot in digital form…help guests the best way he can and provide them the best experience a guest deserves at a theme park. Yet, as the years passed, and he had all the time to think

Some might consider him lucky; some would do anything to be in his shoes. Yet, as Bram looked on from the rocky cliff…the place he called home for twenty-two years, he felt a sense of dread, uncertainty. From his vantage point the black circular ships rose from the ground, each taking two-hundred humans to the stars: their destination…Kerel IV. It’s a tropical, oceanic, planet with red and purple vegetation and three suns. The first settlers sent a message back fifty-seven years prior: detailing the curved rock structures, small crab-like beasts, and favorable space that dotted the obsidian coastlines. Bram watched on, reminded that he would be joining these humans soon. He knew this would be his last day on Earth…EVER. This was a one-way ticket, a journey through sub-light space that would take forty-nine years to reach Kerel IV. He needed to join his brethren. He was one of the few suitable to populate the alien world. It was his duty and to deny such an opportunity would grant