erisian: you already know how much i like this one
. i'm very impressed by how well put together it is and how you made all the elements into a unified whole - but quite apart from all that, i think it's a really interesting picture, that sets my imagination going. my latest story is this: the alien is actually a descendant of cat from 'red dwarf'. her species see it as a holy mission to rescue cats in trouble all over the universe and this picture was taken after an especially memorable moment in the history of red dwarf cats: the rescue of schroedinger's cat from the state of being both dead and alive. don't ask her how she achieved it, or how the cat can breathe in an atmosphere where she can't, but she saved her distant cousin from a fate worse than death (i e being both dead and alive at the same time) and now she's going back home to be greeted as the hero she is.