I woke up slowly and saw the bright blue sky above me.

Then their face came into view, along with their panicked voice; “Oh thank goodness you’re awake!”

“Are we here?”

“We crashed. But everyone is okay.”

I sat up and looked around our new planet, and my heart sunk and raced.

Desert. Just desert. As far as I could see.

“Water?”

“No, Captain, we lost it all in the crash.”

“But all twelve souls aboard?”

“Fine, sir,” my lieutenant said.

It didn’t matter, I thought, we would all be dead within hours.

I closed my eyes again to wait.

I’m on a mission to write 1,000 one hundred word stories.

Thanks for reading!