During one of his expeditions, Isaack came to one of the edges of the rainforest, where he stumbled upon a new discovery: there was a flattened area that held many flowers and tropical plants. This was an area that he had not yet found and—with his excitement and interest—he explored the flat.

Many of the things that he found in the plain piqued his interest, making him even more intrigued with the idea that there could be extremely valuable resources in the plain. Traveling throughout it, he found things such as old, metal scrap, sculptures that depicted human beings holding objects or presenting things, glass objects that were shattered and beyond reconstruction, and a few buildings that were ruined, but their size did not even attempt to rival the height and width of the structures in the rainforest.

The grassland, being slightly dry and arid, was made up of both tropical plants and some desert-like shrubs that grow low to the ground. If one were to travel deeper into the lowland—as Isaack could not see this, for there were a set of hills that went through the middle of the plain, with the rest of the flatland behind it—they would start to see more arid plants, or ones that would be found in a desert basin, such as dry, bush like plants and small succulents that did not pass the knee of the average man. Deeper into the plain, like the arid plants, were scattered patches of sand that began to get more frequent the farther into the plain one goes. The dryness of the plain was made more apparent after the being in the dense, humid rainforest; the air got staler the longer one would stay it, although the environment was able to sustain tropical plants, which got most of their water from the storms that traveled over the jungle and then slowly dissipated as they traveled over it. It was less of a meadow and more of an introduction to some sort of desert that possibly lay farther off. The common patches of sand that were, at times, underneath Isaack’s feet as he traveled were much more dryer and granier than the sands that made up the beaches that his hut sat upon; this was most definitely because the sands that were at the shore were made up of shells that were almost pulverized over time by the waters, while the sands that were in the dry lowland were made from stones that were slowly broken into smaller pieces by time.

Isaack was so fascinated with the plain that he almost seemed to get lost in his curiosity; he had not been in this sort of area for a long time, as the last time he was not in a densely, plant populated jungle or a salty beach with an ocean next to it was before he got trapped on Earth, if that really was what the planet was called. He found interest in the artifacts that he found in the silt and sand, buried under the surface for possible decades until they were pulled up from the ground by him. The things that he found in the plain were very similar to the items that he found in the rainforest, as now it is to be assumed that the city that sat upon the beach and the area around it had become overtaken by the slow growing forest. Many of the objects that he found were—just as the other items in the forest—made of either plastic, metal, or rubber—which were things that he eventually would be able to scrap. He came across plastic bottles that once used to hold liquids, canisters that probably held certain materials, as they were marked with images of special items and resources, and tin cans that must have once held types of food. Unlike the jungle, he could not find any remnants of “ancient” technology, like the monitor and computer. It seemed to be that this area was not as populated as the forest area, and that there were not as many structures that once held people or items as the city that was hidden in the jungle.

During his expedition, Isaack noticed something, and so he turned in the direction that that thing was, and to his supreme satisfaction it was a tower. It was not a medieval tower or even a towering building, but instead it was some sort of satellite or radio tower. Quickly, Isaack ran towards it, tripping over the small plants that were under his feet; he was excited by the fact that there was something of interest, as the artifacts that he found in the sand were nothing groundbreaking. Eventually, he made his way all the way over to the tower, and he stood only a short distance away from it. It was a giant, or almost a behemoth that towered over everything else, almost like it was some sort of lighthouse or guard tower, although there was no one to man it. There was no ladder, which meant that there was no way of Isaack being able to climb up it, as the sheer size of the beams that it was made of was extraordinary and it was almost utterly impossible to reach one of them, even if he had something underneath him to boost him up.

As he investigated the area around the tower—including a square, concrete pad that it sat upon—he noticed that there was a little structure that was most definitely for the person who would have manned the tower and made sure that it was working properly. The door to this skinny, brick and concrete building was bolted shut and made of metal; but, as it came to be with most things made of metal that were on this planet, it was rusted beyond repair. A hole covered in red flakes was right in the center of it, and the metal handle that was used to open the door was about to fall off because of the amount of rusting it had gone through. Using a rock that he had found near the tower, Isaack chipped away at the hole that was in the door, making it big enough to fit a person through. After finally completing the task, he squeezed his body into the door, falling onto the cold, hard floor on the inside. Isaack stood up, dusting his handmade garments off; from the new perspective of the opposite side of the door, Isaack noticed that he could use all of his strength to break the door down from this side. Slamming his body up against the door, he broke the door off of its weak hinges.

Now that he had a way to leave the building, Isaack turned around to search the room for anything that could be of use to him. The room—which was extremely compact—had an array of practically completely destroyed electronic mechanisms that had something to do with monitoring the antennae that Isaack had seen atop the tower, and only one flimsy, metal folding chair. He investigated the room, making sure that everything was searched, and he was grateful that he did so because towards the end of investigating the room he found an extremely long extension cord that had been barely touched by rust and degradation. At one of the two endings of the extension cord there was a power block where Isaack would be able to plug in eight other cords.

With his newly found item, Isaack made his way back home; the journey back home was similar to the journey when he found the lowland. Before he left, Isaack took some of the bottles that were strewn about the dryland, for he would be able to repurpose them and use them to hold freshwater that he either collected or boiled over his campfire. Traveling through the rainforest was not that much of a pain, since he had been used to doing it, and now that the Sun dried up most of the water that had pooled in the bottom layer of the forest. When Isaack got out of the forest after his journey he dropped off his newly collected bottles into the storage extension that he had added onto his hut; he then ventured over to the campfire, which he piled logs and twigs next to for later. Once he finished collecting enough fuel, Isaack went to the tent that held StillCare. As usual, she was “asleep”.

“StillCare,”

She quickly shot up.

“I’m going to unplug you.”

StillCare looked forward, as she always did.

“Why?”

“Because I am going to move you into my home with this new extension cord.”

“I don’t understand.”

“It’s alright; you will once I’m done.” Even though he knew she could not hear him after her response, he felt like he was obligated to assure her that she was going to be. The power cord that plugged into the back of the monitor was different from the power cord that plugged into the computer, but both of the cords were plugged into an extension cord that ran all the way to the wall plug in the first building Isaack found. After shutting down the monitor and computer, Isaack unplugged the power cords that were connected to the original extension cord; after that, he carefully brought the monitor to his hut, and then after that he brought the computer to his home too. Taking the extension cord that he had found in the building next to the tower, Isaack plugged it in into the first extension cord and then ran it all the way to the shore, where he set the eight plug power block in his home. The cord that he had taken from the monitoring room was almost too long, as he had to recoil part of it in his home. Isaack took multiple leaves and used them to cover up the cord that ran from the tent that he had made all the way to his home, so that they could be protected if another storm were to come in the future.

Plugging in the monitor and computer into the power block, Isaack became nervous; he was afraid that for some reason it would not work and that he had somehow ruined the two highly valuable objects. When he turned on the computer, he was almost shaking. Isaack turned on the monitor right after turning on the motherboard, and he was reassured when he heard StillCare’s voice.

“StillCare, iiV2, Boot up beginning. Boot up complete.”

There was a moment of silence, as the computer rendered the character onto the monitor.

“Hello! I’m StillCare, your personal assistant! I can help you with anything that you need me to! I can help you with mathematical and algebraic calculations, give you facts about a specified subject, keep your passwords and logins, search the internet for you, and do other things! Just ask me by saying “StillCare” at the beginning of a sentence!”

“StillCare, it’s me: Isaack.”

“Hello Isaac!”

“StillCare, do you remember me?”

StillCare froze for a second, before she jumped right into her response.

“Of course I do, Isaac! Why wouldn’t I?”

A sigh of relief came from Isaack; he was afraid that she would have forgotten about him and that he would have had to reintroduce himself, even though he had only known the A.I. for a short time.

“StillCare, I moved you into my home.”

“Thank you for doing that, Isaac!”

“StillCare, can you tell me about Earth?”

“Earth is the third planet from the Sun in the solar system known as ‘Sol’. It is home to an extremely diverse range of animals, plants, and bacteria! Earth also has a known, who is named ‘Luna’”.

“StillCare, tell me about Luna.”

“Luna, also known as just ‘the Moon’, is the only natural satellite of Earth. The radius of the Moon is approximately 1736.482 kilometers, or 1,079 miles. The Moon is mainly made up of oxygen, magnesium, iron, and silicon.”

Thinking to himself, Isaack tried to figure out how long 1,079 miles was.

“StillCare, what is the Earth made of?”

“The Earth is made of rocks and minerals, mainly granite and basalt.”

“StillCare, what is granite?”

“Granite is a type of igneous rock that is mainly made up of quartz, plagioclase, and alkali feldspar.”

“StillCare, what is basalt?”

“Basalt is a type of volcanic rock that is formed when magma cools and hardens. It is mostly made of silica, and it is also made of plagioclase, olivine, and pyroxene. Basalt comes from the ground at temperatures around 1100 and 1250 ℃.”

“StillCare, what is plagioclase?”

“Plagioclase is a mineral that is a part of the feldspar family, made up of a mixture of anorthite and albite, and it is one of the most common minerals that makes up rocks.”

“StillCare, what is feldspar?”

“Feldspar is the most abundant mineral on Earth. Feldspars are silicates of aluminium, and they have iron, calcium, potassium, and sodium.”

“StillCare… What is iron?”

“Iron is a chemical element that is a metal with the symbol Fe, and its atomic number is 26. It is very abundant in the Earth’s crust, and it is used for many different things.”

Isaack, confused by most of the terminology that StillCare used, was fascinated with all of the information and answers that StillCare gave him.

“StillCare, what makes a forest a jungle?”

“The definition of ‘jungle’ is ‘an impenetrable thicket or tangled mass of tropical vegetation’.”

“StillCare, give me a name for a jungle.”

“The most famous jungle on Earth is known as the Amazon.”

“‘Amazon’. I like that. StillCare, give me a name for a meadow.”

“Pacific Meadow.”

“I like it. StillCare, what does ‘pacific’ mean?”

“The definition of ‘pacific’ is ‘peaceful in nature’ or ‘relating to or of the Pacific Ocean’.”

“Pacific Ocean? StillCare, what is the Pacific Ocean?”

“The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean out of the five oceans on Earth. It is between the Americas and Asia.”

“StillCare, what are ‘the Americas’?”

“The Americas are made up of the two continents known as South America and North America, although they also contain the subcontinent Central America. They were named after the explorer ‘Ameriggo Vespucci’.”

“StillCare, what are all of the continents?”

“The seven continents are Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, North America, and Antarctica.”

When Isaack had his fill of knowledge, he said goodbye to the A.I. and decided that it was best for him to go to bed; so, he shut down the computer and went over to his bed. As he stared up at the ceiling, listening to the crashing waves outside, he thought to himself. He thought about all of the information he was just given by StillCare, and he thought about what the planet ‘Earth’ really was; he thought about granite and basalt, and the minerals of his new home planet; he thought about iron; he thought about the ‘continents’; Isaack especially thought about his new StillCare, and he felt like he started to grow a connection with her, if one can even call a connection between a computer and a human a real thing.