Nyll

[katybacon]

Commander Winters is explaining science. He's very enthusiastic. For a moment I get a strange sensation, that I've seen this before... I close my eyes and concentrate and there's a picture. A man made out of stone, but moving. Moving all of the time, enthusiasm pouring off him in waves. Paper everywhere, and models of machines. Sums and drawings and pictures of wings, and model wings, and wings.

I don't know what it means, except it means that where I come from we have at least one scientist and he does this a lot. I look back up at commander Winters still explaining. There's something on the tip of my tongue and I let it out. ‘Michylnyll.’
“What?”
I shake my head. “I don't remember, but I think we do have scientists where I’m from.”