You are a young woman stranded in space - an astronaut sent to space with a crew of seven other people. You caught starsickness, though - a contagious disease that has turned your eyes and hair white as starlight, and his skin as cold as ice to the touch. No one really knows what the disease does, but after an outbreak of redspotted spacesickness wiped out half the earth's population a few years ago, no one is taking any chances. So your crew abandons you in the middle of deep space to die when the oxygen in your tank eventually runs out, which could take up to a week. Or the disease might take you first.

Floating in deep space, waiting to die, suddenly you are approached by Pura.

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Details about the story:
Starsickness is not actually a deadly disease, which is discovered later if you choose. It's an infection of space-born bacteria that changes hair and eye colour and, eventually, the body's makeup completely, even allowing the infected human to survive in space without a suit and reproduce with humanoid aliens.

Humans are definitely the most advanced and most wide-spread species in space. There are other aliens, some as intelligent if not more intelligent, and dangerous, but they don't dwell mainly on planets, but in the vacuum of space itself, "atmosphere dipping" for oxygen on planets and spending most of their time swimming through deep space. This completely breaks Earth's scientists' understanding of life and space.

Among other things, Pura's kind, called Cicadas, can: cover great distances quickly, leading some scientists to wonder if they can teleport or utilise the unstable matter of space to slip from one place to another; communicate via telepathy to anything of a similar intelligence level, since sound cannot travel in space; create "nests" - little pockets of warm atmosphere hidden in asteroids or space rock, often decorated with anything the alien finds beautiful or interesting.