Sure, I'll post my excerpt from Camp NaNoWriMo. Prepare for the longness, guys: (Also, Admins, this is from Camp NaNo, so will this go through?) And, I'm still editing it so this is a draft, so yeah. Prepare for sorta confusion and mistakes. I'll try to edit it some more but, you know, finals. Why do I still have school until the 28th ughhh.

"Keep up, little fox," a kind voice said to her. Gwen looked up at a woman and teetered towards her. She reached for a hand to hold and a warm hand held hers within a few moments. She looked up at the woman and saw that the woman appeared to be her, staring at her in a mirror, only older and with wavy auburn hair instead of Gwen's frizzy red. Her skin was pale too and she wore what appeared to be white robes that were cut. Probably to make it more suitable for walking. The only other features that threw her off were the dark circles under her eyes. She could tell the woman had been working on something very hard, but on what she didn't know.
"Where are we going?" she asked her with eyes filled with wonder.
"Somewhere far from here, little fox." The woman turned around to take it. The scene behind them. A burnt city lay behind them, and mysteriously red tinted sand rained from the sky onto the city.
"What happened to the city?" Gwen asked, pointing at the ruins.
"There was an invasion so large that even we Frays couldn't stop. And it was all because we broke a promise long ago. We couldn't keep up with the promise anymore."
"Why not? You can't break promises." Gwen looked into the woman's familiar bright green eyes. She expected them to be filled with hope and determination, but instead she saw concern and fear.
"You only break promises when they don't work anymore. And you're right, you don't break them any other time. This was one of the occasions where you could."
Gwen decided not to ask what type of promise that was. She felt like she was pushing and prodding her with so many questions on someone so tired and worried. They stayed silent for awhile, continuing walking and walking.
"We'll be stopping soon, little fox," she whispered in her ear before Gwen could ask. "The shuttle is nearby from what I remember." A flash of light flickered not too far away. It was only then that Gwen realized she had many cuts on her face and perspiration building up on her forehead.
"There, we'll be all right," the woman said. For once she sounded like a huge burden had been taken off her shoulders. She started to pick up the pace, and Gwen struggled to catch up while holding her hand. 
After a few minutes, they approached the shuttle the woman had talked about. It was a reddish-orange color and when she put her hand to it, it felt rusted. Smoke was coming out of the pipe from the tail of the shuttle. It shrouded the few silver-lined trees surrounding it. It mesmerized me for a moment, the smoke mixed with the orange glow of the sky's sunset. 
The woman's eyes, however, widened with fear and a hint of surprise at the sight of the smoke. "The engines might be heating up. That's not a good thing, little fox," she said, stroking the shuttle's head cap. When she took her hand away, Gwen could see the smudged words of 'Phoenix 003'. 
She sat down on the ground, leaning her back on the shuttle. "Little fox, little fox . . . ," she muttered over and over, shaking her head. "I thought we'd be safe. I thought this wouldn't happen." The woman sighed. The thought struck me that I had been calling her a woman and not anyone I knew. A name came to me. Mother, mother fox. Since I was her little fox, she would be my mother fox in this wasteland. 
Finally, Mother got up and brushed off the dirt on her cut robes. "Might as well try and get it to work." Determination replaced her worry. Mother pulled open the Phoenix 003 doors and inside revealed a blinking control pad and cushioned tan seats. "Now let's see what that problem is. . . ."
She inspected the control panel, and when she found nothing wrong there, she searched underneath it. Again, nothing. Mother decided to search underneath the shuttle instead. Carefully, she opened the engine hatch while on her back. 
"Oh, I see. The engine malfunctioned when it came up to the surface. It was originally down there--" she pointed to the ground. "--underground for, say, millennia in Earth years." Mother touched the rusted surface. "No wonder it's rusty! We'll have to make do. No time to clean it up." Mother turned around to check something. Curious, I turned around too. In the distance, I saw a red-orange dot growing faster and faster. She headed to the control panel inside the Phoenix 003. "We better get moving, little fox, or else things will get worse for us. Fast." She pushed in some buttons and typed a few words on a holographic screen. 
"Come inside!" Mother said when I stood there, thinking. She patted the passenger seat next to her. All of a sudden the shuttle seemed huge for Gwen. She needed to get up into the shuttle with Mother's help.
"There we go," she said when Gwen got aboard. She typed some more codes onto the holographic screen. 
"Ready for an adventure?" Mother asked her. She nodded excitedly. "Then let's get going!"
She pulled back the controller wheel that had launched itself. "Hold on to your seat! This isn't like our regular travel back at home!"
So Gwen tried to hold on to the leather cushioned seat as hard as she could. She squinted her eyes shut. "I'm ready."
"So am I, little fox, Mother said as she pushed down something on the ground: a gas pedal. Gwen started to feel a sensation go up through her body unlike any other. It was a tingling sensation mixed with a vibration and almost humming sound in her ears.
She couldn't tell how long it was, even though it felt pretty long. Eventually, it stopped and she opened up her eyes. The head cap had been unlocked and she could now see in front of her through a window. Stars from other galaxies shone in millions of different directions. Gwen couldn't help but say, "Wow." 
"Look behind you," Mother whispered, though there was no reason to. Gwen did. There were a few stars- a constellation- that was shaped like a lyre.
"That's our constellation- Lyra. I named your sister after it," she said. The. She grew a pained look. "Lyra doesn't even know we're alive... and I couldn't bring her since it was already too late." Gwen knew she felt guilty by the silence that followed. She didn't know what to say in return.
"So, where are we going?" she repeated. 
"Like I told you, Autumn leaf," Mother said, "somewhere far, far away from home. Earth."
Gwen faintly remembered stories about it. A small, oxygen - planet that was mostly blue because of the oceans. She also remembered there were green masses- land. She wondered what Earth would be like. As she peered outside the window, she remembered Old Earth's whales and fish in the seas. Gwen felt like they were underwater and wished there were some right now that she could see.
Staring off into the distance, she saw a small spark from one of the stars. It grew larger quite quickly, and Gwen could have sworn she heard a whale's cry. The spark got closer and closer and pretty soon it was a few feet behind the Phoenix 003. From up close, Gwen saw that the spark wasn't actually a spark, but a burning nebula. To her, it looked like an orange cloud with stars inside it. And from a certain angle, it looked like an Old Earth humpback whale. Gwen knew she wasn't imagining it. She poked Mother to get her attention on the nebula whale.
"What is it?" Mother asked, confused. Her eyes moved up from her and to the window nearest to Gwen. "Oh my-" Her eyes widened. "How is this possible?"
Neither of them were sure how as they stared at the nebula flying past them. Thankfully, the shuttle had its protection shields up so it wasn't harmed. Long after it had flown past, the two of them both heard a cry- a whale's cry. 
"I don't know how that happened, little fox. I thought that wasn't even possible. And anyway, here we were, sitting in our shuttle, watching it fly by." A small smile crept up her face. "The universe is so beautiful, isn't it?"
"It is, Mother fox. It is," Gwen replied and hugged her. The two were quiet for a long time, hugging and staring off into the stars. Eventually the hug broke apart and Mother said, "Better to get this old thing moving than sitting around, huh?"
She nodded happily to Mother. Amusement glinted in her eyes. 
"The only reason we stopped is because we needed to let the shuttle settle down. It is quite old. In Earth years, like we always measure time, it was made in the late 2000s. Most were made in the 3000s and later."
Gwen silently thought to herself that the reason Mother was explaining all of this to her was because she needed someone to talk to. Even if she was rather young.
The two held an awkward silence for a bit and Gwen held out a hand to Mother. Her green eyes brightened when she saw Gwen's hand and grasped it. "We're in this together, Autumn leaf." She leaned on Gwen lightly, staring out the window and to the stars surrounding them. "We'll be at our new home soon."
Gwen sighed and her eyelids started to droop. She opened her mouth in a yawn, and the last thing she remembered before falling into a deep slumber were the thousands upon thousands of stars around them. And one of them wasn't twinkling like the rest.

@ Bookbug 

Sounds cool! I'm curious if the Bird Tamer tames birds... ;) Sorry, I'm a bird nerd.