CHAPTER 14 – Boom

CHAPTER 14 – Boom
Things were not at all like you see in the movies—probably because the architects had also watched those movies.

“What in the hell was that?”  Dan had been repeating this phrase more often than he wanted to lately.

Freddie was already moving to get dressed.  If she was going to die in space, it would be with her pants on, not floating about space for generations naked.  She dropped her robe reaching for her clothes.

Dan, ever chivalrous, turned his head.  His reptile brain let out a series of swear words and suggestions concerning his virility.  Dan headed toward the corridor to find out if he could see anything. There seemed to be light coming in from the viewport.

Freddie caught up to him just as she zipped up her jumpsuit.  Dan’s reptile brain smiled.