Slipping from the mothership into the terrestrial vehicle seamlessly through the transport, it had been cold and lonely in space in my return journey here- some thousands of years, but only a few minutes here and now. “What are our coordinates?” I asked, and she said “mile marker 77”, so I assumed it was earth, 47.0522° N, 96.9345° W. 

Everything was in place, moving across the prairie into the gathering darkness.