Insurance Claim

Montoya looked out across the devastated city from the naked hilltop. "Oh wow. Now that there is what I call a mess. What happened?"

"The Xendarae dropped a clanger."

"Clanger?"

"Yeah, you know. An iron chondritic asteroid. We call'em clangers. The defence system got overloaded, and this one got through."

"Big'un?"

"Nah. We got lucky. This one was only a piece of the one they tried to land on us. Only a hundred and fifty metres. The big one was ten kilometres."

"Ouch."

"Yeah. That one would've cracked the mantle open. No doubts."

"Insurance?"

"No.

"Then why am I here?"