Weekly Drabble
These are the voyages of the starship Undertaking
Episode 2: Away team
The starship orbited a planet, lightyears from Earth. The captain paced back and forth, while communication officer Eho watched her instruments.
"Any word from the away team?"
"No sir."
"I was against this from the start, you know."
Eho didn't reply.
"It's wrong, against all convention and procedure."
Puck, the science officer, looked up. "But we must find out..."
"There's nothing to find out."
"Sir," Eho said, flicking a switch.
"Captain," a voice was heard from the tannoy, "bring us back, we won't get any help here."
"See? I knew there was no point in stopping and asking for directions."
Copyright 2006 Örjan Westin
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