For the first thirty minutes after James had left, no one said a word. Some were pacing back and forth. Dave was tossing a pebble up and down. Daniel and Mary were both sitting side to side, close enough their shoulders were touching. Twenty minutes later, the cave shook from the explosion. They could hear the squeals as five thousand Gorgs turned to dust in a second. And like that, it was finished. Their lives, their planet, everything would start to drift back to how it was. Or a new version of it at least...
Science fiction & fantasy