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- Jan 8, 2020
Elijah Miller hated driving in the rain. Visibility was so very low that it was almost impossible to see the road in front of him never mind any animals that would happen to be crossing the road and at night too no less, almost midnight in fact, it was just about the worst time he could imagine driving and yet here he was doing 50 on his way back towards his town but at least he had his radio to listen to. The convention had been...well, it had been pretty boring in all honestly but every 6 months like clockwork he would find himself going out of town to the local lawbringers convention to discuss new methods of peacekeeping, how to deal with dangerous individuals, how to assign his deputies the minor tasks and the not so minor ones and how to recognise when one was in over their head and needed his help...even where to best fit himself into the town's lawkeeping. Honestly he didn't think it was necessary to hold them as often as they did but whoever decided this crap seemed to really enjoy making Sheriff's from all around the country drive for miles, sometimes taking a few days for the journey like Elijah himself had just to discuss things that hadn't really changed that much. New standard issue weaponry, new regulations, new tactics for dealing with citizens in distress, it was all things that usually didn't make much difference to how he ran his station; the latter might have if he wasn't already doing it. In a small town like Domburton at least half the residents knew him anyway in some way or another, he knew how to handle those under his watch and those that he didn't, he had found he was more than adept in taking care of them. Looking out of the side window at the farm he was passing, it was...peaceful. He liked that about his town, that he could drive through the night and not expect some nonsense to come out of nowhere, that there weren't random shootings normally occuring. It was quiet, and while a part of him did yearn for a little excitement he wouldn't trade that for anything in the world.
The rain was getting more obnoxious as he drove, like it was getting thicker and harder to see through like something had pierced the very clouds to make it fall more heavily and he swore to himself as he turned on the highbeams and his radio started acting up, spitting out static rather than music, sounding like there was some kind of interference. It was fortunate that the town was so small, only around 5000 or so residents and mostly a farming community although there was the old steel factory nearby and a few miners, plenty of cafes and even the train had a stop in town. Leaning forward to peer through the windscreen, Elijah had to squint before he could see much of anything at all and even then visibility was low...until he looked up. Above him, streaking through the night sky and setting the background of it ablaze was what looked like a shooting star, maybe a meteor but Elijah honestly didn't know how to tell the difference. What he did know was that it was flying in the direction of the town and it looked a lot closer than any shooting star he had ever seen before. A lot closer. It streaked ahead of where he was, travelling far faster than he could even in his truck and he could have sworn it looked like it was going to hit the town...it seemed to be getting lower and lower the further it went, miles ahead of him and still so bright...then nothing. It just vanished, like it had dipped beneath the horizon though he could have sworn he had seen what looked like an impact, a spark of flame as it had vanished but the rain seemed to make it that much harder to see...and his radio sprang back to life, like whatever was interfering with the signal had gone. Damn shooting stars. A few more miles of driving after the curiosity and he was about to enter town, passing by some of the farmland when, glancing to the left, he could make out what looked like a fire. It had only been around ten minutes since he had seen the shooting star...could it really have landed? Could it have crashed into the corn field? Turning towards it on the next path, he was carefully driving along, much slower as his truck navigated the bumpy dirt road until he saw something pop up ahead of him, humanoid, small like it could possibly be a child and way too close. "Shit..." Swearing under his breath he swerved as he slammed on the brakes, narrowly avoiding whoever it was, if it was a person at all and not some damn animal that didn't know better than to step in front of a moving vehicle...and he pulled to a stop.
Taking a few moments to gather himself he looked out of the windscreen again but all he could see was corn, he'd had to swerve into it to avoid whatever or whoever the fuck it was that had stepped in front of him, and he reached to the back where his shotgun and his flashlight were mounted, pulling both free. It wasn't often that he had to actually fire his weapon, hadn't happened in years actually, but he wasn't going to take any chances, not after all the weird shit that was happening tonight. Forcing open the driver's side door, having to shove his way out due to all the corn, he waded through it until he was back on the dirt path again, clipping the flashlight onto the shotgun and using it to look around. Left, then right, scanning for whatever had caused him to swerve and at first he saw nothing, till he heard a sound off to the side. He aimed towards it, the strange, chirping noise. "Hello? Who's there? Anybody? Hands where I can see them, no sudden moves..." At first he couldn't see anything because of the rain but then the beam landed on something...something he couldn't say he'd ever seen before. She was short, around 5 ft tall and pale like she hadn't seen the sun in a long, long time, or ever...in fact pale was an understatement. She was white...almost entirely white and at first he thought it was some kind of skin-tight suit but the closer he looked he realised she wasn't wearing anything at all...he could see bare breasts, two rosy pink nipples adding a splash of colour to an otherwise entirely white body...the only other colour being two similarly pink spots on her head...or was that her hair? That, and the red of her eyes. She was unlike any creature he had ever seen or heard of before, and he was starting to put two and two together...a strange shooting star crashing near the town and now this...this thing? "Are you an alien? Do you speak our language?" He was trying to stop himself from being too freaked out, couldn't help making a joke. "Do you come in peace?" He took a step towards it...or her, it seemed, trying to get a better look. He couldn't see her face well enough in the rain to really know what she was thinking or be able to hazard a guess, but her movements seemed strange, lithe and almost serpentine...fast. He saw her dart to the side and it was hard to track but she stopped again, she was looking right at him and...fucking hell, was that a tail? Did she have a tail? "Stay right where you are...I don't want to hurt you, just...what are you? Do you have a name?" He approached, thinking he must be out of his damn mind but he had spoken the truth, he really didn't want to hurt her, it wouldn't do for an alien's first impression of Earth to be some dickhead opening fire before they had a chance to communicate and besides, she was kind of cute in that 'alien lifeform that might want to eat your eyes from your skull or might just be scared' kind of way.
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