“I still had them when I was back on earth.” Drivas’ eyes went large as she slowly nodded to a smiling Samuel. With that he vanished, appearing ...utside the station then speeding away.Drivas sat with a thud, as did the sub-commander of the Intergalactic Patrol. “You believe him?” He asked of her.Swallowing hard she looked at the male. “A lot of what he said I do. As of yet he has made no aggressive moves against the Patrol. Even when Thellus discharged her weapon at point blank range.”The. “Give me someone to speak to about this then,” I tell him.“Well, Captain Monahan. He’s kind of the one scheduling the whole thing, making sure no one who is needed will be going to the party when they should be working,” Fernandez tells me.“Do you have a direct dial number for me to reach out to him today?” I ask.“Yeah, I’ll text it to you this morning after we hang up.” He tells me.“Ok, Jose. I look forward to seeing you and your lovely wife this Saturday. Oh, by the way, what is your wife’s. A house in the trees by the creek.”“What of your project?”“I was never so frustrated,” she said.“One thing leads to another,” he said.“It’s never as simple as you think,” she said.“No plan of action survives the first bullet,” he said.They stopped.“Murphy’s Law,” they said.“You should get dressed,” he said. “I may be old but I am a man.”“I should get dressed,” she said, suddenly naked.“We have a great deal to do,” they said.“This time, we throw money at it,” they said.The lights went on at The. ”They scribbled scary messages backwards on all the mirrors in the apartment. (Dora insisted that you needed to write backwards on a mirror so that people could read it. Jill was pretty sure that wasn’t how it worked, but said nothing.) Finally, they hovered over the bed of the youngest of the apartment’s inhabitants, a teenage university student who had moved out of her parent’s place two months ago. The girl tossed and turned in her sleep while the ghost children peered at her with faces blue.