The Oldies thought that was the end of the excitement and although shocked, still thought to attend the meeting far below. They moved towards the apartment door whereupon the Artefact spoke in Michael’s voice again, “Toxic gas warning! Toxic gas up to level two hundred!”
“What does that mean?” asked the WomanOldie absently.
ManOldie called her to the window. They both looked as far in the distance as they could and saw the aft end of the Fusion Tanker standing nearly upright amidst a large crater where the old highways had intersected. A thick yellow gas jetted out from the broken fuselage of the vessel and unhurriedly settled in a deep cloud upon the ground. Slowly then, it began to flow towards the area where the ‘Interstellar Heroes’ building stood first in a line of hundreds of the m
