“Where are we? Near the coordinates?” Tabitha asked excitedly as she opened the overhead hatch.

Spotting a clearance amongst all the rubble, I set the spacecraft down.

“Not too far from here,” I replied confidently.

Hit by a wave of heat as we exited the craft, unlike anything I’d experienced before., I struggled to get out.

“Just as well, we came during a cold spell.” I looked back to see Tabitha was already sweating. There were crumbling buildings all around us, and little signs of life. It smelled of death. Humanity had really messed this place up.

“We better get moving,” Tabitha added anxiously.

“Yeah, let go. It’s just a hundred meters this way. I’m sure we’ve been monitored, and there waiting for us.”

I was growing anxious, and the heat was not helping.

The short distance we had to walk over the dusty surface was unpleasant. Then, just as I expected two men appeared from before, and I was started by what I think was a thick Scottish accent. That in itself, could have been considered an archaeological find. They were tall in white robes like ancient Roman Emperors, and with flowing black and blond hair.

“Wha brings ya ere?”

“Five, four, six, one, niner,” I replied. The password had been one of the first things I noted on the leaflet.

“Aye, follow me.”