A Story A Day Challenge 2025 – A Leap Backwards Part 5

The ship was just ahead and alerts of movement wasn’t close enough to warrant a threat, but the scans hadn’t shown them until they were too close.

For that reason, they didn’t slow despite their suits’ power starting to dip. There was a failsafe level that would slow them automatically to conserve power.

They landed close enough to the village so that wasn’t a concern.

“Right where we left her,” Richard said over their comms.

The Lazy Susan quietly sat in the middle of a clearing a handful of miles from the village. Things were calm, but for how long?