Once the giant spaceship had landed and turned off its equally gigantic engines, the children were allowed to come closer again, though the peacekeepers still kept up a cordon at the edge of the airfield.
Because Misha was fascinated by the spaceship, Katya took him by the hand and went as close to the perimeter as they could, so Misha could admire the ship.
About a minute or so after the ship landed, there was a rumbling groan and then a ramp was lowered to the ground. Like everything else about the ship, the ramp was huge. It was big enough for two grain transporters to drive up side by side.
But instead of grain transporters or any other vehicles, what came down the ramp were people, men and women in uniform, moving in a neat formation. Every single one of them wore a gun strapped to
