A week has passed since the badminton match as rionel appears in his room early in the morning watching cartoons while snacking on a bucket of popcorn. After hours pass as he continues watching but this time watching old movies in black and white while eating a pizza, after more hours pass he appears to be playing a game on his console while eating chips and soda.
He continues as he repeats that in a cycle as craife enters in and out of the room ensuring his snack supply never runs out and his room still spotless. Hours turns to days as he repeats the same cycle without sleep and his only break being to take a bath, until finally after a week in the morning his father burst in to his room with a smile saying "come on rion, today is the day", wordlessly he rises from his bed going to his closet and puts on his white jacket, he opens another smaller side of the closet that reveals a sophisticated white watch that latches onto hus hand as he reaches for it.
He turns to his father saying "well, what are we waiting for?" In a cold tone.
His father smiles as he shouts " let's gooooo.... to grazia", he then calls out to craife who's outside waiting for them in a luxury car as he says "shall we proceed?"
They both enter and the car starts moving, the car takes several turns on the road as both rion and anat relax in the backseat with rion putting on headphones with his eyes closed while anat stares outside the window as the car moves.
The car slows down as outside is a what appears to be a huge tear in the earth's surface that leads directly to space as different people and races enter the fissure and many come out.
Anat admires the mesmerising view from inside the car, he turns and looks at rion at the other side of the car perhaps hoping he shares the same excitement as him seeing such a sight but rion's face remain in a deadpan stone cold expression even though he's looking he's also staring at the fissure from inside the car before he turns his face away from the car window closing his eyes softly.
Anat starts speaking to rion who now has one eye open "you know, I've been here countless times but I'm amazed by it everytime."
Rion doesn't say anything only closing his eye as the car proceeds slowly in silence as anat continues looking out the window excitedly before finally the car comes to a slow stop with craife speaking from the driver's seat "this is as far as we go on car anat"
They all step out of the vehicle and proceed among the huge crowd on foot as they continue towards the fissure.
As they near the fissure it gets more mesmerizing as it appears as a shimmering curtain of green, red and violet light reaching up to the sky.
When they finally enter they are standing on a large platform with large words of an unknown language engraved upon it as it glows.
Various sailboats with giant oars on each side without sails appear to be docked on the platform with the vast and endless space with various stars right behind them.
Craife and anat march towards a smaller but luxurious looking ship in the far right corner of the platform as rion follows closely behind them while looking around with a bored face before they finally arrive at the ship.
A man appears to be waiting right at the dock, his face a pitch black color with what seems like white tatoos on his face in the form of stars and constellations wearing a long coat, a waist coat with breeches and a tricorn hat.
The man bows as they reach the ship with anat saying "at ease captain",he rises as they all board the boat with the captain shouting orders to his crewmen who all appear like him but with slightly different features, tatoos and clothes.
The man takes his place in front of the helm as the boat slowly undocks while the sailors start rowing slowly before the boat finally undocks, the oars shine a blueish light as the sailors row at full speed as the boat picks up speed crossing stars in an instant.
Aboard the ship in one of the rooms, anat, rion and craife are seated in a luxurious room as the ship moves in superspeed.
Anat still giddy from the ride as he says
"Hey rion, you won't say it but I know you're curious"
He looks at his father with glazed eyes as he asks "about what?"
He answers " about everything, the ship, the sailors, the lights... all of it"
"No, not at all"
"Well I'll tell you anyway, you see the captain and the sailors are from a race called spacewalkers. The very first spacewalkers descended from a tear in space, just as their name implies they can literally walk in space."
He looks at rion half expectantly who notices his father's eyes full of anticipation before saying "I see"
With renewed enthusiasm anat continues "you see the first spacewalkers could only had the ability to traverse through space, walking to different planets moons and solar systems but with each generations that have passed their abilities grew as they evolved awakening different abilities with one of those being the ability to open fissures from planets leading to space and another one being the ability to move vessels in space just like the ship we'reon now."
He once again looks at rion with a smile on his face who stares back at him before finally speaking almost sarcastically
"Do they have the ability to make this trip any shorter?"
His father chuckles a little replying
"Well yes,they do have the ability to make it shorter, the trip from earth to grazia would normally take several thousand years but we'll be reaching in a few hours, pretty fast right?"
Rion humms to himself as he says
"I guess" then turning his head looking through the window as stars zoom by in quick fashion