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We are on Earth. We have always lived on Earth.

“One question that has been asked by us all since we landed here is why did Earth go dark? It is the eternal question. Are we alone? The last gasp of a once-proud species? Have we been abandoned? Does life still exist on Earth?”

“It is hard to be alone,” I say. “I often do not know why we try so hard to survive.”

I will be able to leave the crowded habitat and be alone with my thoughts. I will be able to walk farther than the two hours the oxygen tank allows for. I might be the beginning of the much dreamed-about expansion. They look at me like I am the future.

We come from scientists after all. And even though most of the science is forgotten, we are survivors.

I long to run. To be alone. To be away from these others clinging to the end of humanity.

“We are the last humans, Nina,” my mother reminds me every time I put on the suit to go outside.

Called it!