Chapter 33
The team brought the rover down with the gentlest bump. Nick’s muscles slowly relaxed, and he breathed somewhat easier, though he still had a dry tacky taste in his mouth. In the last moments before the landing, he had expected a much harder jolt. When they landed his tiny space cabin, it’d been a lot rougher. But then again the rover was built by the elves so he should’ve expected that it was designed better for landing on the surface of the moon.
Now that they were down the bands of energy streaming back from the alien reindeer faded and dissipated until the only thing left was their energy antlers. Tiny faint bands still crawled across their flippers as they skated like ice skaters on the ice outside. It wasn’t a polished smooth surface. The ice around them was bumpy and un
