Sharp, croaking sound broke the silence, making Airheart almost jump in surprise. Opening her optics, she quickly looked around, trying to locate the source of the noise.
Nothing.
And yet, the sound not only didn't stop - it got even closer. It sounded somehow familiar, even though the femme couldn't quite recall where or when she's heard it before...
Little green creature stood still, staring at her intensively with his funny bulging eyes - or at least that what she felt it was doing - and kept making those strange croaking noises that goblins usually make.
"Oh....Oh. Hello, tiny goblin. What are you doing here...?" She asked quietly, careful not to scare it away. "You shouldn't be here, you know? It could be dangerous for you."
More croaking sounds and then, the goblin leapt fom the edge of a table, towards the ground.
Airheart gasped and quickly moved forward, reaching her servos to catch the creature before it'll fall down and hurt itself. How did it even get into her shuttle? It was a miracle that it got so far safely!
Holding the goblin carefully and making sure she's not accidentally squishing him, she walked outside her shuttle and closer to a nearby stream where she finally decided to set the creature free. There she sat on the ground, quietly observing while the tiny green one jumped towards the water and listening to it's croaking sounds - and some other ones that seemed to answer from somewhere not too far away.
"So there's more of you here, huh?" Femme quietly said, her wings twitching slightly. Although she'd never admit it, Airheart felt a strange pang of jealousy deep in her spark - a feeling that surprised her.
Last few months of her life on Earth were quite devoid of contacts with any other Cybertronians. It wasn't the fault of her friends though. There weren't many of them, but she believed they'd be there for her if she needed them. The truth was...Airheart didn't want it.
One day, after another failed attempt to contact her former spaceship and getting even more convinced that in the end her shuttle's communication systems must be somewhat broken, she simply left.
For months she kept travelling. Flying above the human cities with all of their beautiful shimmering lights and observing them from a safe distance, then sending out her holoform to explore them only to retreat to more uninhabited areas soon after that. She blocked her comm link and returned to her shuttle only when she truly had to. It was strange and lonely way of living, but at that time, driven by all the emotions that boiled in her spark, all that Airheart wanted was to disappear. To forget and be forgotten.
And suddenly here she was - sitting in front of her shuttle, looking at tiny, croaking creatures and thinking that maybe...Maybe it was the time to stop running away.
Time to come back.
