Writers’ Journal #110 – Scorched Earth – 23

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Then the whole show halted just as it started without warning. Colors merged into the green light as it was before. We stood firmly on the ground like statues with our mouths opened wide enough for the ship itself to be emerged from them. I had to force a slap myself to make my body move from the events that just taken place right in front of me. Something had happened since Dio went into the light. Could he had brought back the ship like we intended? The static noise from the scanner suddenly echoed through the silence.

“Look, Captain. There is something in space directly above us,” shouted Neva.

Without saying another word, we both ran towards the exit door and climbed the ladder like two monkeys to reach the surface. It was still bright, with the orbiting star nearly touching horizon, but there was still enough light for us to see with our eyes what had suddenly appeared above us.

It was the ship. The same ship that disappeared right in front of our eyes recently. Dio had done the impossible. The cap-comm on my belt, the communication device for the ship Captain to the bridge had also become alive once more. Then we heard the voice which we had been hoping for.

“Captain, what just happened to us? I felt like I just woke up from a dream, ” said the voice from the other side. It was Johnnie, ship’s chief navigator. Neva and I looked at one another and started dancing and shouting with the energies of two men who had just found the secret to immortality.

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