This is it.

I'm reaching out to the only help I can get. I'm the last non-alien on this Earth, and this is the only way I can find a life. I don't want to be heard, or even to be found-I just want to be safe inside myself for once.

If I can't find what I want there then I have no alternative but to join the others in the place that they call "The Afterlife". Like the So-Ancient-Egyptians, I believe we are judged in Purgatory at the end. That our heart is put onto a balancing scale with a feather, and that eternity relies on the weight of our heart. This means that our 'Sins' (to use an old term) do quite literally weigh down our hearts. At least I'll get in-I've been preparing for this all my life.

Sometimes I think that The Egyptians weren't fair. This means I'll never see my brother again; but I won't miss him...Okay, I will... I cried for weeks after it happened and had hoped to see him again some day, but maybe my family was never meant to be. Are we cursed, or something?

The good thing about The Egyptians is that their scale can only accept one heart. Not two, or three, or six. Not even the mutant hybrids with only half a heart...or sixteen!

This is it now. The end. This or nothing... A freedom from non-humans?

How strange it is that I am reaching out to the supernatural for help.

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Calling For Help

This is a solo story set in the far future on Earth about a girl trying to get away from a life filled with aliens. So far there's basically only two characters, but hopefully that number will expand as the story grows. I changed it to a solo 'cause no-one was adding to it and I want to expand on the storyline by myself. Thanks to encouragement by Spook the story goes on :)
I alternate between characters, and it's about two Protagonize chapters each, then swap, etc.

Characters:

Dido Shakespeare: The heroine of this story. One of the only pure humans left on the planet after aliens have come and settled on the planet. She has no more family, after her parents disappeared and her brother died. She is 17 years of age and had to quit school to look after herself. She believes in an afterlife as the Egyptians saw it.

Mrs Shakespeare: Dido's deceased grandmother, whom Dido contacts at the beginning of the story, and who agrees to help her.

updated May 29 '10 by SumnerzAngel