Chapter 3: Those Who Watched in Silence

For a long time, those small creatures continued appearing among the cities and gardens of S7 without anyone truly knowing who they were.

They did not seem dangerous. They never damaged anything. They did not interfere with the systems or alter the functioning of the planet. They were simply there.

Sometimes we saw them hidden among the glowing plants in the parks. Other times they remained motionless on the highest rooftops, watching the sky for hours. When we tried to get closer, they disappeared without making a sound.

Nimbis in a garden
They always watched from a distance.

But there were more and more of them.

Many Sixevenians began to think that those creatures had lived on S7 long before us. Others believed they had arrived from distant places in the universe. Nobody seemed to know the answer.

Until one day, they stopped hiding.

It happened near one of the great domes of the blue hemisphere. Several of those small creatures stood quietly beside the energy gardens while some Sixevenians watched them from afar.

Nobody knew what to do.

And then one of them slowly moved forward...

First approach
Some words can change an entire world.

It was small, soft, and silent. Its large eyes reflected the lights of the S7 sky while it looked at everyone with curiosity, as if it had been waiting for that moment for a very long time.

Then it pointed at the stars.

And it spoke for the first time.

—Nimbi.

For a few seconds, nobody moved.

That word crossed the square in silence while the other creatures looked around calmly, without fear.

From that day on, we began to call them that.

The Nimbis.

Looking at the sky
From that moment on, the silence of S7 never felt the same again.

And although we still did not know where they came from or what secrets they kept, there was something that all of us were beginning to understand:

S7 was no longer only our planet.

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