Are we dead? When you actually have to ask the question and you really don’t know the answer, you can bet you’ve been though something intense. Impact was sudden. The spacecraft appeared to nosedive toward the bright blue water of Earth before plunging deep under the glassy surface before coming to a full stop on the murky ocean floor. “Are we dead?” Tim managed to ask again, certain that because no one answered the first time, he probably was. Canary laughed. “No, Tim,” he said as he put a hand on the young man’s shoulder. “You are decidedly not dead.” Canary and Rusty had opened the cockpit door moments after landing and were now helping everyone undo their safety belts. “We’re going to take the ship to the underwater docking station, but there’s no need to be buckled in any longer,”
