He snatched up a blanket and wrapped it around himself, feeling as if he were in some department store window with a crowd of gawkers on the other side of the glass. They are going back where they came from as soon as possible.
Yet what the crew finds instead is a secret hidden since the galaxies first spawned intelligence--a secret that could mean salvation for the planet and its inhabitants.
It was all bad enough but when we smoothed out the papers and looked at what was on them, we felt we had come to the worst.