Exodus

The flight of the Pelted from Earth.

"Holly purportedly kept a diary about her life, beginning the day she learned to write," Kellen explained. "On the journey out it was accidentally destroyed, yet we have more documentation about the events leading up to and following the revolution and diaspora than we do about any other part of our origin. When we met humanity some three hundred years ago, they only added to that knowledge."

I have seen the ships they've built us now have walked inside their skin. We'll know them when we fly them, and how to put to dreams our kin: Another risk, they tell me. Another risk. Waking schedules have been fixed and fit to last the hungry days, A long and lonely watch to sit as the months grow long and gray, and tumble into decades. Into centuries!