Please Don't Tell My Parents I Blew Up the Moon
“Right?
I didn’t actually see any asteroids. I saw a whole lot of stars. We’d left a few orbiting Ceres, but if there were any more asteroids out here, they blended into the starscape. Nothing moved that I could see.
“I was expecting something a little more dense,” Claire said beside me.
On my other side, Ray clenched his fists, then threw a forearm over his eyes. “Movies lied to me! I don’t know what to believe in anymore!”
Ha! Ray, you goofball! Okay, yes, I’d missed this side ...of you.
That left me to ask the obvious question. “So, where are the asteroids?”
A little yellow circle marked one of the stars on the screen, then another, and another, and another. As the circles started to multiply, I hastily corrected, “The nearest ten.”
Circles winked out, leaving four. I’d asked for―oh, right. Twisting my hand, I sent the Red Herring into a slow roll.MoreLess
I didn’t actually see any asteroids. I saw a whole lot of stars. We’d left a few orbiting Ceres, but if there were any more asteroids out here, they blended into the starscape. Nothing moved that I could see.
“I was expecting something a little more dense,” Claire said beside me.
On my other side, Ray clenched his fists, then threw a forearm over his eyes. “Movies lied to me! I don’t know what to believe in anymore!”
Ha! Ray, you goofball! Okay, yes, I’d missed this side ...of you.
That left me to ask the obvious question. “So, where are the asteroids?”
A little yellow circle marked one of the stars on the screen, then another, and another, and another. As the circles started to multiply, I hastily corrected, “The nearest ten.”
Circles winked out, leaving four. I’d asked for―oh, right. Twisting my hand, I sent the Red Herring into a slow roll.MoreLess
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