10
THE RAFT
“We’re here, time to wake the kids.”
The voice sounded muffled; it might have been Charles — it was hard to tell through all the pain.
“That’s quite a lot of blood back there Gwen, are you sure they’re alright?”
“They’re fine. I had to cut out their bio-disks, to stop them from compromising our direction of travel. They’ll get over it, plus, I’m pretty sure neither of their backs are broken from your crappy landing, which is handy.”
“Hey! That landing was amazing given the circumstances. Anyway, home have seen us, I’ll send the code flash…sure hope the lights still work.”
“They’d better. After going through all that, I’m not up for getting blown up by our own people. Take us in as slow as you can, I’ll wake up Tweedledum and Tweedledee here.”
“Will do, slow is all we’ve
