First Imperial to step on Earth

"It's smoke!"

Those two simple words came bearing a heavy meaning. 

Out in this empty plain devoid of anything but the most bare geological features, there were only a few ways for a fire to appear. 

And every single one of them spelled trouble.

"Claudy," I stretched out my neck to look over. 

"Yeah, I can see it too," Claudy replied while stretching his arms out. 

Standing up from one of the chairs bolted to the back of the buggy's platform, he moved over to the front of the vehicle and looked out past the reinforced windshield. 

"It's too small for a big fire," Fay noticed under her nose. 

Pulling my head back to its place over Fay's shoulder I examined the smoke again. 

"I guess we could slow down a bit?" I suggested, only to bite my lips as I hesitated. 'With the bending of the space, whether it is an illusion or not, it might be still quite far. And we don't really have the time to start an entirely new adventure…'