Earth had received it's long expected visitors. Before they had entered the earth's sphere, they had signaled for permission, following all the gestures atypical to the non-intrusion of airspaces.

It was a spaceship of aliens from the remotest parts of the galaxy. They did not land in the ocean as was typical to parachuted capsules but amidst a location reserved for some of the activities of man.

Finally, aliens were on the earth and they had come in peace. Answering some of the first questions, they assured the world that they didn't plan to tactically and overtly colonize the earth as was long suspected of extraterrestrials. They claimed they had no such interests in overriding the events of a foreign planet.

They had envisioned earth to be the most incubating of planets in the solar system. But if the forms of life therein, or the essence thereof, they hadn't paid sufficient attention to.

They were resettled and cohabited two cities with humans as a really small tribe of aliens. They spread themselves into two cities for strategic reasons to them, which was yet unknown to the humans. In time, the humans were pleased to have them around. One race warming into the other.

But naturally, humans had mixed feelings about their stay. Were they sleeper cells for a grander plan or would they genuinely hold on to their pacifist motives? It was hard to say. These aliens didn't look particularly terrifying. They were slender, towering, had beaming eyes, a pale leathery body and communicated just fine.

Elk, the leader of the aliens had given humans their oaths as tokens of peace. And so all was well. Though the cynical nature of humans ensured that CCTV cameras followed the aliens wherever they went. The aliens, with their superior senses, weren't oblivious to this fact, if it would help the humans to gain their trust, then they needn't violate or bypass these measures.

With their advanced knowledge, they had helped scientists and invariably the world to leapfrog in various fields.

Whereas humanity in turn taught them the finer and frail traits of being human which they so admired.

In daily living in those two cities, they could occasionally be found at the settlements that'd been made for them, also at a handful of functions and at the most recent workplaces that'd become a hybrid of humans, aliens and robots working together to speedily bring forth a better future for everyone into the present time.

For a time, the aliens had helped them make sense of certain obscure things throughout space and time. The two cities they dwelled in saw way more technological development and growth than the rest of the world.

One of the places they had briefly worked at was the observatory in the small town by the lake where Philippa was. She had been one of the most intrigued about the nature of

these creatures for all of her life. Her field demanded it. But it was also a natural inclination. Until it passed into normalcy and for a time there was hardly anything startling from space.