It'd been three fortnights since the arrival of Dacha and there was much cheer and laughter between them. They were a happy family until that evening.

Julianna had gone out to buy groceries, Parker and Dacha were in the barn milking the cattles when all of a sudden, they heard a whooshing sound of something approaching. Next minute and part of the barn was hit by a meteorite, Dacha was flown headlong to a corner and was caught up in the falling rubbles. He cried out in pain as the animals scampered out. The part which Parker was standing wasn't much affected so he rushed to drag Dacha out.

"Save your skin, Karl," shouted Dacha. "Make a run for it before the whole place crashes upon you."

"And leave you here?" replied Parker. "No way, you're coming with me."

The whole barn was in flames now and was giving way and the roof was about to come down. Dacha's weight was not an easy burden for Parker to lift out of where he was stuck in and just as he(Parker) got the boy free, the whole place came crashing down upon them. Parker, without giving it a thought, covered Dacha by laying upon him as the whole place collapsed.

Dacha sustained a slight gash in his right leg and few bruises here and there but Parker was more severely wounded he had to be admitted in the hospital.

Julianna met them at the hospital and inquired from Dacha what had transpired. Dacha, with sorrow in his eyes, explained every detail to the letter. He kept emphasizing how Parker had saved him in the barn.

"He shouldn't have saved me," he kept saying. "He had a clear chance to get out of the flaming barn but didn't."

"Am glad you're both alive, Dach," Julianna said comfortingly. "That's what matters."

"But your dad, he's hurt because of me and that's not supposed to be."

"Doctor said he'd be fine in a couple of days. He sprained his ankle and sustained deep cuts all over his back but my dad's tough, he's gonna be okay. Am glad you're okay too and I'd appreciate it if you were as glad and thankful, and not being so negative."

"No. It doesn't feel right. He shouldn't have put his life at risk because of me."

Julianna was getting annoyed now. Did her dad just put his life on the line for an ingrate? She wondered.
"That's what good people do, for crying out loud," she yelled. "Put others first! You do not mean to say you would have left him to die in the barn if your places have been reversed?"

Dacha turned his face away in silence.
"I don't understand it," he said at last. "How could someone risk their life to save someone else's? Tell me, how could someone risk their life to save mine?"

"Come on, Dach, you're worth saving, alright? Now, why would you say such a thing?"

"Remember when I first came into your house and remarked that I never expected such kindness? I meant it to the letter. Where I come from, kindness was a word only found in the dictionary. It was never used as it was never felt.
"What do you mean Dach? I didn't know the Canadians where as heartless as you seem to imply."

"Canada you call it. I know not such a place."

"What? You mean to say you are not from Canada?"

"I mean to say I'm not from around here."

"You're scaring me, Dach. Please be straight with me for the love of Christ." Julianna was gradually running out of patience and out of her senses as well."

"You asked how I have no bellybutton. Where I come from, people aren't born the way your kind give birth to young ones. We are incubated from fertilization to the fifth year."

"You must be kidding, Dach. I may be sixteen but I've outgrown such fantasies."

"It's no fantasy, my dear Julianna. The destroyed area in your cornfield. You still do not know what occured there."

"You said it was some wild animal which you chased away."

"There was no wild animal. That was exactly where my spaceship crashlanded."

"Spaceship!" Julianna's eyes bulged out in surprise. She couldn't hold herself.

"Yes. Spaceship from Kryos."

"Crashland! Spaceship! The sound that awoke me! The strange shooting star!" Exclaimed Julianna.

The facts were all coming together and it all seemed to make sense to her now. "Am I going insane or did you just insinuate you're an alien?"

"It's the latter, I'm afraid."

"No, I'm seriously going insane. No, it must be a wild dream and I need to wake up now!"

"Come out let me take you to the cornfield."

Julianna was by now apprehensive and filled with utmost anxiety. She didn't want to follow the alien who up till now had deceived herself and her dad with tricky lies. She was suprised to find her legs moving her slowly forward, following closely behind Dacha.

They walked a good distance into the cornfield right where the crash had taken place. Close to the now barren area, Dacha stopped and held out his right hand and placed it on the his left wrist. A green transparent device like a watch appeared around his wrist out of nowhere. Julianna gasped in shock. He pushed a button and immediately, out of nowhere, on the bare portion of the corn field, sprang a spaceship of the strangest form. It was like a small cupboard barely more than six feet in length, three in breadth and three in depth as well, with the streamlined nose partly buried in the soil. It was made of some lustrous material which gave off a glow like that of neon.

Julianna gasped in utmost horror. She couldn't believe her eyes. She went forward and touched it. It was as real as the ground she walked upon. She went round it but found no door.

"How, in all things marvelous, do you enter and exit this-this-this thing right here," Julianna stuttered. She was completely losing her mind.

The dark youth pushed another button on his mysterious piece of jewellery on his wrist and a tiny door appeared by the side of the spacecraft. Julianna felt a compulsion to go in but it frightened her nuts. After all she had seen and heard, she didn't know what was real and what was not anymore.

"Don't be afraid," said Dacha. "You can go in." He moved forward and opened the door.