Oblique

To arrive with anything intact you have to come in slow, and at a slant, and be big enough to lose most of yourself on the way down, and land on ground, not water, or what you carried thins to nothing in a sea that doesn't notice.

Someone at the Met Office in Exeter ran it through the numbers: once, on average, in a billion years. The rest came straight and fast and kept nothing but the light.

They tested hydrogen cyanide because it holds, because if that can't get here nothing softer will.

Most of what I've meant to bring I brought straight at someone, fast, and it burned off on the way. The one thing that got there I came at from the side, late, not meaning much, and set down on dry ground.