9
Mikki, Planet Valuri, The Beach
The twisting torment of the transporting to another world left me doubled over, gasping for air.
“That stinks,” I complained to Rachel, who stood next to me in a similar condition. She smacked me on the shoulder through the thick protection of the space suit I was wearing and grinned.
“Never get used to it, but it beats spending ten hours cramped in coach on an airplane back home.”
“True.” I stood and looked out over the new horizon of an alien world and forgot that two seconds ago I’d felt like I was dying, my chest squeezed and my head pounding as if it was about to explode. “Wow.”
“Right?” Rachel was already moving toward the water, directing one of the six large warriors to position her lab and sampling equipment that had transported with us. Eve
