Stardate 52039.3

     The soldiers ran through the bazaar after Lyinn with increasing speed.  
They thought that when you were only 16 inches tall, you had no chance.  Lyinn
knew that this was not true.  There are advantages to being small enough to fit
under practically anything.  So she ran under the tables, and behind the 
booths.  It was the only way to lose the ever famous Mar'kin soldiers.  Lyinn 
had to lose the soldiers.  If she didn't, what happened to the others would 
happen to her.  She would be sent to some far off planet or moon where she 
might never see another person again.
     She could hear the Cryni alarm sounding off somewhere.  It seemed far 
away, but she knew that it might be because of all the material hanging off the
table she was hiding under.  Sometimes she wished that she could travel the 
stars, like in the stories some of the giant ones told.  Sometimes she also 
wished she was as big as all of them.  She wasn't foolish enough to think the 
second could happen, but maybe the first...
     Lyinn peeked out from under the booth.  It seems that she has lost the 
Mar'kin, for now.  So, she got out and started to wander around.  She had 
learned when she was much younger that you can't be afraid of the Mar'kin.  
Careful, yes, but not afraid.  Never be afraid.  You wouldn't have a life, if 
you were.
     Lyinn had spent most of her life wandering around the bazaar.  With its 
many types of people, food, goods, and smells, it was always an interesting
place to be.  Like many of her kind, Lyinn was good at making and carrying 
maps around in her head, so she had no trouble getting around.  Before her 
people had left their planet for wandering, they had lived in tunnels.  No 
outsiders know what name her people have given themselves, and thanks to the
Mar'kin there weren't very many of them left anyway.  Those who were left liked
the name Cryni, which was given to them by Mar'kin.  But then, the Mar'kin have
given them many things, most of which, they didn't even know of.
     By now Lyinn had reached the food area.  She had to be extra careful here.
This place was crawling with soldiers.  But even as she had this thought she 
was being noticed.  And in so, while she was deciding what she wanted to eat, 
a soldier was coming over to her..
     Salad or that bready-like looking thing.. 
     Suddenly, she felt herself being lifted up off the ground.  She started 
to struggle, even though she knew it was too late, as she saw a hand spraying 
something into her face.  And then, darkness.
     Lyinn opened her eyes to find herself staring at huge open sky.  She just
stared at it.  Back on Mar'kin there was never a sky so empty, never.