Strangers Like Me

As the boy looked up at the stars through the window, he felt a familiar, empty ache in his heart join him as a silent, comfortless companion. And with how cold and heartachingly empty the shelter was while Dream was away, the dark cavity in his chest was only dug deeper.That feeling, Tommy believed, was called loneliness– a complex, deep-seated emotion he had long gotten used to as his days grew longer without company. Even on days when he was really, genuinely happy, it would strike to remind him that he was painfully alone, because he knew well that the galaxy was full of creatures who hated him, and they wouldn't hesitate to slaughter him like they did to everyone else of his kind.But that's just how it was when you were the last Human alive in the entire universe. Or, Tommy's been raised as the last remaining Human alive on an isolated dwarf planet, where he's grown up shielded from the dangers that sought to kill him for his Human parts to be consumed. That is, until a strange spaceship touched down and brought with it even stranger people– including someone who looked strikingly, impossibly Human.