Footsteps echo in the church. Along its aisle a white figure walks. A bulbous suit with a golden visor. A square tank sits on its back. It looks around as it walks, at the ceiling, the balcony, the pews. When it reaches the altar the figure stops and observes the small metal man on a wooden cross. A gloved hand runs along the wood of the altar. The figure looks back down the aisle to where the church abruptly stops and sees the black gulf of space and the white shell of the ship in the middle distance.
Paddy Dobson
12th May 2021