Excerpt: Echo Generation

Mav tugged at our hands and we kept moving. “Watch out for that edge right there-“
My foot slipped off of ‘that edge’ and like a dummy my body kept moving forward. “Yaaah!” We all tumbled down the slope, yelling as lots of pointy objects like rocks and trees broke our fall.
“Unhgh!” A weird voice…was that Jekk? shouted as I landed on something soft at the bottom.
“Oy…thanks for the warning Mav.” I groaned.
“Thanks for pulling us all after you, Echo. Sheesh…I think I landed on your head, Jekk.” Falcon grunted as he sat upright.
“You’re right, you did. Now get off of me.”
Wait…if that was Jekk over by Falcon, then who was I currently sitting on? “Hey Mav?” I said, rolling off of the soft thing.
“Over here genius.” If she was over there…then who had I landed on?
Two glowing blue eyes appeared next to me. “YAAAH!” I scrambled backwards on my butt.
“Are you Echo?”
“Woah…what is that?” Falcon moved closer to me. It’s pretty unnvering for a pair…wait, now there were four glowing eyes. Or was it six?
“Are you another mutant? Did you escape when we did?”
“No, Echo, I did not escape with you. And I am not a mutant. One moment please…”
Dim white light flared suddenly. I blinked as my eyes adjusted.
“Woah…are you sure you’re not a mutant?” Jekk said.
Because boy, if this wasn’t a mutant, then it was some escaped refugee from a circus or something...
"I am not a mutant," it said.
"I am an alien."