Send It Soaring

Deneen and her little brother Charlus are ship-born children growing up in outer space. They live with their parents on an interstellar ship visiting new planets. Unfortunately, the ship's first stop is the planet Maron, a boring desert world inhabited by unintelligent creepy crawly creatures. The crew waits patiently while scientists study the world and its aliens, but Deneen is suspicious. No one pays any attention to the creatures except her and the zoologist, but he spends all his time in the mountains studying them. She starts to become scared of the aliens' glowing red eyes that watch the ship, silent and waiting. With no one to really talk to, she must wait twenty days for the ship to leave the planet and get her as far away from Maron as possible.

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