A smile flashed across his face as he realized why she had agreed to go with him. She had agreed because it was an excuse to fly her anti-gravity fighter. She couldn't care less about exploring dead worlds and wandering planets. He wasn't the touring type; there was nothing interesting about exploring dead worlds. Not for her anyway. Surely there was nothing worth writing home about here on the dead planet, just ruins left behind by a long-dead alien civilization. “I heard you loud and clear the first time.” A surprisingly deep but friendly and amused voice came through the high-definition 3D audio communication system installed on the ship. “I was still taken by the ruins below. Look, some of the alien structures are still standing. I'd like to go at least two hundred miles before we can get back to the aircraft carrier." Kocz said, “Come on, we'll explore the planet later. We have a lot of time to explore. We'll be here for three whole days, remember? Let's go back, I'm really tired.” he begged Xerla. She may have loved flying but at that moment her body was almost at its limit, she needed sleep. “Just a few miles please?” Kocz pleaded. "Well. A few kilometers, no more than a hundred though. When we reach the hundredth mile from here I get back on the Maztica. With or without you." Xerla told him. "Aaaah, killjoy. Don't tell me you're not mesmerized by the beauty of those ruins over there." Kocz said quizzically. “Not even slightly. Although I wonder what happened to this planet and what happened to its people.” She informed him. “It's simple. The people of this planet have made God angry. This is what happens when you piss him off. Kocz commented. He was a devoted Inzperu The one and only existing... middle of paper... vessel, he had declared that the soldiers would have to rest. They would begin drilling into the planet's core to place a laser-based nuclear bomb that will explode the planet in three days. There was no rush, he said quickly, so that her three-day stay here would end. She only had four hours out here, but she couldn't wait to get home to Tyrlia, the capital of Ekcyr, to club and party. Have fun. Yet, here she was, thousands of miles from home, tired and sleepy, accompanying her flight companion on a boring nighttime aerial tour of a lost planet they were about to destroy. She wondered why the planet had decided to invade their space while she was on duty, she could have waited at least another five days.