He Took Off His Coat. The Planet Began to Sing | Sci‑Fi Short (HFY) - video Dailymotion

Sarge's Tales

Original sci‑fi short story with HFY vibes. A mercenary named Kian lands on the ice world Ilya‑13 to retrieve a “bio‑key” for Helix—until a woman rises from a hot spring and the water starts to sing. He covers her with his coat, ignores the order to seize her, and together they awaken a planet’s memory.  This is a story about choice, dignity, and a world that refuses to forget. Stay to the end to hear the planet’s song.Chapters 00:00 Hook — the mission 00:25 The hot spring 01:05 Eira rises 01:45 Drones arrive 02:40 The tunnel 03:20 The heart of the spring 04:00 The song & standoff 04:40 Epilogue — the shard#scifi #shortstory #HFY #originalfiction #narration #audiostory #cinematic

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00:00They sent me to steal a key. Then the water started to sing.

00:03Kian loosened the seals of his exosuit and let the steam swallow him.

00:08In the middle of Ilya 13's glacial valley, a hot spring breathed like a beast,

00:13slow, steady, and too alive for rock and water.

00:17His visor fogged, cleared, and painted the scene in pale blues and ghostly white.

00:23Bio-key should be here, said Jax, the suit's AI in his ear.

00:27Helix wants it intact. Bonus if you don't break anything.

00:31Since when do we not break things? Kian muttered.

00:34He knelt at the rim.

00:35The pool was glassy, but when he dipped a finger, he felt a pulse, as if the spring had a heartbeat.

00:41A ripple spread, gathered, and rose in the shape of a woman.

00:46She stood chest-deep in the spring, dark hair slicked to her cheeks,

00:50skin the color of sea glass warmed by a storm.

00:53A white cloth was wrapped around her shoulders and clutched tight in both hands.

00:56The water steamed, but the air bit.

01:00She looked up with eyes as deep as the ocean and said very softly,

01:04Don't speak loud.

01:06They listened through the water.

01:08Kian set his rifle down without quite deciding to.

01:11Who are you?

01:12Era, she said, and smiled.

01:15Small, tired, and not at all afraid.

01:18Or whatever name you give the first voice you hear in a strange land.

01:21I am what you came to take.

01:24The bio key, Kian said.

01:26The door, she corrected.

01:28Helix calls me a key because they think everything is a lock.

01:32This world remembers in water.

01:34I open those memories.

01:36Over the ridge came the faint jingle of rotors and the snake's hiss of stabilizers.

01:41Drones.

01:42Jax ticked off a count.

01:44Three, closing.

01:45Company policy.

01:47Surrender target.

01:48Keep your skin.

01:49Company policy, Kian said, shrugging out of his thermal cloak.

01:53Changes when you meet someone new.

01:55He held the cloak out.

01:57Here.

01:58Era stared at the fabric as if it were an apology to the cold.

02:03The drones found them.

02:04The first plasma bolt hit the rocks and spat shards into the steam.

02:08Kian grabbed Era's wrist, cool as Riverstone, and pulled her from the pool.

02:13The cloth slicked against her.

02:14The cloak swallowed her shoulders, and the water clung to her skin like a second, shimmering layer.

02:21They ran.

02:22The valley walls narrowed into an alley of black ice.

02:26Era lifted a hand.

02:27The spring answered.

02:28Water leapt in a sheet and hardened to a thin, singing skin.

02:32When the next bolt struck, the shield drank the light and exhaled a drift of glittering ice.

02:37You control water, Kian said, breath fogging inside his visor.

02:42I listened to it, Era said.

02:44Control is a human word.

02:46A shadow fell over them.

02:47Two Helix mercenaries stepped from the steam.

02:50Rifles leveled.

02:51Their captain's voice came from the drone speaker above.

02:54Subject located.

02:56Remove any foreign layer for transport.

02:59Era flinched.

03:00The shimmering sheath on her skin tightened, as if bracing.

03:03She is not cargo, Kian said.

03:07He lifted his rifle, then thought better, and fired smoke instead.

03:11Gray swallowed blue.

03:12He pulled Era through a cleft in the rock, down a natural stair, into a tunnel that panted with warm air.

03:20Why help me?

03:21Era asked, moving easily, despite the cold, despite the fear.

03:25Because I like oceans, he said, and I hate orders that hurt people.

03:29We are not people, she said gently.

03:31We are a world.

03:34The tunnel opened into a chamber that could have been a cathedral if cathedrals were carved by heat and time.

03:40Stalactites hung like fangs.

03:42In the middle, a bowl of water glowed teal, brighter with each of Kian's steps.

03:47This is the heart, Era said.

03:49The first place the planet learned its name.

03:52Jax hummed in Kian's ear.

03:54Uneasy.

03:55Three signatures at the mouth.

03:57Ten seconds.

03:59What do you need?

04:00Kian asked.

04:00Heat.

04:02The song travels on warmth.

04:04Era touched the battery housing at Kian's spine.

04:07Can you bleed your reactor without... exploding?

04:11Only on Thursdays.

04:13He unlatched safety catches and dumped heat into the air.

04:16The chamber inhaled and sang.

04:18A low, thrumming note that made Kian's bones feel hollow.

04:22Era waded into the central bowl.

04:24The living sheen on her skin shimmered like scales, then like mist, then like nothing at all.

04:31She raised her arms.

04:32The first mercenary rounded the corner and fired.

04:35The beam hit the water and broke into a thousand threads.

04:38The threads wound together and spun like a loom, weaving a wall that hummed in harmony with the singer in the pool.

04:44Stand down, the captain barked, stepping through steam.

04:48Or we take what we want.

04:50Era's voice matched the water's.

04:52Take is the wrong verb.

04:54Kian stepped forward, rifled down, palms out.

04:57He felt ridiculous and exactly right.

05:00No one's taking anything.

05:02Back off and I won't log you as hostile.

05:04You don't log us, the captain said and fired again.

05:08The wall drank the shot.

05:10The chamber brightened.

05:11Era's gaze didn't leave Kian's.

05:14This world remembers the gentlest touch, she said, but it also remembers who heard it.

05:19The drones shivered, cameras frosting from the inside.

05:22Their rotors coughed, stuttered, and...

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