The Seeker's Prayer

Here is my story for the @inklings-challenge 2024! This story is from a universe that I've been thinking about for a long time, but haven't had a chance to write in yet!

Team: Lewis Genre: Space Travel Themes: Instruct the ignorant/Pray for living and dead Word Count: 3,229 [PART 1] | 3,839 [PART 2]

PART 1

Zavion stared listlessly at the datapad in his hand as the Reva class shuttle bumped and shuddered its way down through the atmosphere to the planet below. Shoulders hunched, he did not make eye contact with the shuttle’s only other occupant. Instead, he fingered the star-shaped pendant that hung on a heavy silver chain around his neck. Members of the Order of the Emissary were supposed to be ever welcoming, ready to usher all cultures and species into the embrace of the Empire. Today, Zavion could not even muster a smile of greeting for his fellow emissary, probably another newly ordained with the same bad luck as himself. Who could possibly want their first assignment to be to a backwater planet of archivists?