Native
Native noun - A usually longtime resident of a locality.
Stay
Stay noun - A temporary residing as another's guest.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- They would've been able to stay together, but people who stay in a non-native world lead shorter lives than they would in their native world, typically dying only a few short years due to disease.
Source: Bittersweet Ending / Literature - The characters end up on the planet D'vouran, which is a carnivorous entity that will slowly eat any beings on its surface except for the native Enzeen, who make people want to stay there.
Source: Chekhovs Classroom / Literature -
Maybe not the happiest version, but in Doomsday, Eden, a native Scot whose mother managed to get her out just ahead of the border being sealed, decides to stay after her mission is complete, and apparently becomes the ruler of the tribe of wild cannibal people by killing her predecessor.
Source: I Choose to Stay
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