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I groaned as I pulled myself out of the pod and swung my legs over the side.
Funny, I thought. My legs didn’t feel weak and drowsy. The world didn’t spin beneath my feet either. And although I still felt a little sick to my stomach, I didn’t feel anywhere near as rough as I had the first time.
Was that because I was now a frequent intergalactic flyer?
Sitting across from me, sitting on the edge of their own pod and gradually blinking awake, was a very docile-looking creature that reminded me of a sheep. It stared at me, but wasn’t really. Its mind was far away and distant, still recovering from the flight we’d undertaken.
Lights flashed beneath my feet and along the floor. They sent a shiver of pain into my brain every time they pulsed. I wished they would turn the damn things off.
Just what you needed after a long sleep.
A figure came hustling down the aisle between the twin row of pods. It was a flight attendant. She wore a tight and very revealing red uniform. Her expression was dark and clouded over with concern.
She turned and held out her arms to address all the travelers at once.
“Everybody out!” she said. “Everybody out of your pods! This is an evacuation! This is not a drill! Everybody out of your pods! This is an evacuation…”
She repeated the warning over and over.
I wasn’t the only passenger struggling to compute her words.
The flight attendant moved further along the row of pods and repeated the same message.
Evacuation?
Not a drill?
What was happening?
I got to my feet and stumbled into the footpath between the pods.
All the pods had opened, the lids hanging open like snapped nutshells. I didn’t believe they were all for Earth.
They wouldn’t open the pods for every single destination, would they?
It didn’t make any sense.
Evacuation.
This is not a drill.
My stomach clenched.
I was a nervous flyer at the best of times. Add to the situation that there was some kind of emergency and we were evacuating…
Things were clearly not going to plan.
Why did nothing ever go to plan?
My stomach performed somersaults. This was the reason I didn’t like my feet to leave the ground.
Because of situations like this.
We were evacuating.
Something had gone terribly, horribly wrong.
I dressed as quickly as I could and followed the white strobe lights on the floor. The other passengers mumbled and murmured to each other, no one quite sure what was going on.
