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A LINE OF smoke drifted up into the broad blue sky from the broken aircraft burning in a clearing in the midst of dense jungle. She leaned against a tree with wide, spiraling branches and saw the moon up above through its leaves. It was just as strange and big as she remembered. She'd missed it.
The young doctor held her arm in his right hand and the little hook and line in his left. The alien wonder around him wasn't helping him finish the stitches. A weird bird flew out of the jungle beside them, and the young man couldn't help watching it flap its fluorescent wings back toward the wreck and land on top of the ship's starboard hatch, cawing down at the invaders below. A dozen crewmembers worked there, pulling supplies from the silver hull with its big block letters: T E S L A.