Silent Steps

Tragic devastation drove them underground. Abject desperation brought them back out again.
Their world had changed.  Alien creatures greeted them with misery in tow and enslavement in mind.
Into this world a girl was born.  Made mute by a mistake of birth, Aylen's ability to communicate with others of her kind was absolute. But natural things - animals, trees, the softly creeping things in the night...