"Oh my... What in the holy?!" Matt exclaimed when he saw the space shuttle descending to the island's private runway.
He wasn't alone. Every single one of them had frozen, their eyes locked onto the spacecraft as it touched down with a low, deep hum that they felt in their chests rather than heard with their ears.
Like the rest of the world, they had seen impossible things during Liam's livestreams. But those were virtual reality experiences. Though they felt extremely real, but at the end of the day, it still wasn't the real deal.
This was different.
This was real steel and real engines and real heat shimmering off a hull that had descended into Jupiter's atmosphere and come back whole.
It sat on the runway like something that didn't belong in this world. It was too sleek and too perfect, with every of its surface catching the sunlight at angles that made it look almost alive.
Nobody spoke for a full ten seconds.
