Farhalys made the people do a count of the food stocks and the humans on the ship to get a proper assessnt of when their food would end.
After getting a good accounting of the statistics, Ning created enough canned food for these people to survive on for the next 2 and a quarter years.
"Thank you so much," Farhalys grabbed Ning's hands and spoke. "If there is anything you want to do, please tell . You can even kill if you want to."
"Unfortunately, I will have to do that," Ning said. "I have learned that once I start, I cannot stop absorbing a Constellation, so you will die. But I won't do that until you've seen these people land on Candar. I promise."
Farhalys could only give a rueful smile in return. Knowing that he was going to die soon was not a happy feeling after all.
"Do you want to introduce you to them?" Farhalys asked. "Or would you like to remain unknown the whole ti? If you need company, there are plenty of individuals on the ship you can spend ti with."
"No," Ning said, a fun thought coming to mind. "Don't worry about . I'll be leaving now now. Take care of yourself and the people for the next two years. When I see you next, it will be on the day when we reach Candar."
"Oh," Farhalys said with a sowhat surprised look on his face. "What will you be doing until then?" "I suppose you could call it cheating," Ning said and disappeared.
Farhalys wouldn't see him for the next 2 years at all.
While the people on the ship spent the next 27 months, going about their days as if it was nothing, while waiting to arrive at their new ho, Ning cheated.
He took over the ship again, and since the ship wasn't a living body, he shut down his consciousness and went to sleep.
It had been such a long ti since Ning had been able to do sothing like this. He was thankful that the ship was large enough and thick enough that it could accept all of his energy without losing any.
27 months passed in an instant for him, and he woke up with the planet Candar just 2 hours away from where he was.
Ning went back into his body and found Farhalys in the middle of a eting. "We are here!" Ning said to Farhalys, ignoring the other people. "What?" Farhalys quickly stood up. "We've arrived?" "We're about an hour away. Get the people ready to descend," Ning said.
"I'll let the people know," Farhalys said. "I'll also have to contact Indebiss and tell him—"
"Don't tell him about ," Ning said sharply. "Just tell him you've arrived and how you should proceed once you're up close."
"Yes," Farhalys accepted the instructions. Ning took over the ship once again and started decelerating. As his speed was simply too fast, he couldn't just co to a complete half, or else the ship would wreck itself by sheer inertia. Instead, he had to do it ever so slowly so that no humans truly realized what was happening.
It took him an hour before the ship ca to a relatively slow speed in which instance he teleported the entire ship right in front of the sun in Candar's solar system. Moving away from the sun slowed the ship even further thanks to its gravity, by the ti he was fully slowed down, he had arrived next to Candar itself.
The multicolored planet was like a jewel shining against the backdrop of darkness in the distance. Ning maneuvered the ship to go above the planet instead of in front of it, and let the ship float up there.
Inside the ship, Farhalys started communicating with Indebiss to let him know that they had arrived.
anwhile, Ning stared at the planet below with the 3 distinct bios that could be seen from space.
On the left side of the planet was a very hot, deserted land where the sun shone 100% of the ti. Moving toward the right, the land seed to heal and it grew green things and had water flowing through it. While the planet was tidally locked with one side facing the sun permanently, the planet was tilted just so that the small band toward the center would spin into its own shadow, creating a healthy day and night cycle for just that strip.
Past that, the right side of the planet was completely frozen land with the furthest side only having rough rocks and not even any frozen water on the surface.
Gold, Green and Blue, and White, the three layers made the planet look like it was sothing made by piecing together three different planets instead of just one.
"Wow, most of the land in the back really doesn't get any sun," Ning said. "How cold does it get there?"
"At the very center of the darkness? Wow! Don't most gas beco liquid at that point?" Ning asked.
"Yeah, no life is surviving there," Ning laughed a little. He looked to the bright golden side of the planet. "And on the opposite side?"
Ning didn't have anything to say about that. There was nothing he could even say. He simply sighed.
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