Drawbacks

They sat together, considering their situation.

She was crying and he was trying to comfort her. They had always known there could be drawbacks. Like her, he realised that things had got so far along that there was a good chance that their old life was now gone. They may well need to start again. He knew that this meant moving across country. Whether the people that were after them were actually aliens from another dimension or not, really didn’t matter. Whoever they were, he knew they would hunt them both down. Because they had witnessed something that they should not have seen or even known about, he figured that if and when they caught up with them, they would both be killed. Until then, going back to their apartment, packing and getting out to the airport as quickly as possible, was the right thing to do.

He put his arm around her. “We can get out of this, that’s a promise, honey.”

She took a hanky from her purse and blew her nose. “Those creatures,” she whispered, “what were they?”

“Don’t know, but we shouldn’t have been there!”

“Will they come after us?”

“We have to assume they will. Right now, we should try really hard to get back and pack just the bare essentials as quickly as possible.”

She began to cry again.

The taxi driver was well used to listening to the claptrap of drug addicts.

He said nothing.

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