kalon name:Kimberley
kalon gender:Female
what do they do for a living and how does it affect their relationships with others?: (500 words or less)
They started out doing it as a hobby, a thing to get to when they could.
Now they need to, or else the world could be no more.
Kim began looking at the stars at a very young age, not because of the stars at all but for her father. Her dad was an astronaut, gone for many years at a time, and he would send light messages in morse code at night. When he returned there would be a big party and celebration of what new discoveries he found. It all changed when he never returned. She didn't know why he didn't, and was always told 'he went to far out that he couldn't reel himself back in.'
She never stopped looking at the sky though, day or night. As she walked to school her eyes would drift to the sun, waiting for a reply from her many messages she sent. She grew up, facing the truth that he will never come back and was angry at him for causing her to think such a fantasy of a thought that he would. She found a new hobby, science. It was different than astrology, but felt with what the earth provided, which was all she wanted to get her head away from the clouds. She became a chemist, working day and night to make chemicals for any one who had the money. She was not happy about her job, she would at times be at her end and break down only to get up and start all over again. She couldn't take the loneliness anymore, and one night got upon her roof to look at the stars. My father is up there, she thought, he has to be. He's the only one left I have.
A sparkling light flashed, a star twinkling in the light perhaps, but the flashing seemed to be repetitive, in rhythm. In code..
Her brain worked hard in remembering the old language, jotting down each letter. It was a destress signal.
Kim, tell my work that its coming. Its bigger than we thought. Theres no time that we need great minds to come together. And that time is now.
She blanked out into the darkness, over come with unspeakable emotions. She doesn't remember how, but she made it to her dads work, yelling about the message.
'Theres nothing on the radar." they claimed. "Earths orbit is fine"
"But look outwards." She said, zooming out multiple times to finally a big red dot appeared. "Its coming, and nothing can stop it."
"What can we do?" Was a repetitive question among the workers, and at that moment, she felt her dad was with her. Kimberley stood straight and tall, no fear overcoming her.
"We shall destroy it, but the parts will still keep coming. A weapon so great, a world defense."
The first particle hit a few weeks later, driving the workers to push even harder. All they could do was wait and watch and build.
Kimberley received messages only a few times, her dad informing her the time they had left, which way the astroid was coming. She took her fathers place on earth, the watcher of the universe, and the engineer of the most powerful weapon ever created.
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