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have drunk about half. Anyway, the next
thing I knew I was feeling very hot – and then that feeling you get
when you’re about to faint. A sickly feeling. The next thing I knew
I was in a hospital bed. Do you think I was drugged?”
    “It sounds like it.”
    “By Trevor?”
    “Possibly.”
    She took another sip of water. I suddenly
remembered about salt and got some from the kitchen.
    “Take some of this.”
    “I will – but I just need a drink first. I’m
so thirsty.” I filled up her glass.
    “I’ve got to tell you about Scotland.”
    “Oh yes! I’d forgotten.”
    “But it’s not safe to stay here. Do you
think you’ll be all right to travel?”
    “Where to?”
    “Edinburgh.” She thought for a moment,
weighing up her own condition.
    “I think so. When do we need to go – and for
how long?”
    “As soon as possible – but I don’t know how
long for. Until it’s safe to come back, I guess. There’s some
people I want you to meet in Edinburgh.”
    “What about work?”
    “Being drugged by the boss wasn’t enough for
you then?” She nodded in understanding.
    “I’ll get dressed.” Then a sudden thought.
“Well, I would if I had any clothes.”
    “Ah! Now you’re going to think this is very
strange...”
    “Kevin…” she said in the playful reproaching
voice that always endeared me to her. “What have you done?”
    “Nothing. It’s just that… remember those
times you used to stay over, and you said it would be a good idea
to have a change of clothes in my flat so you could go straight to
work?”
    “And you never thought to give them back?
They’re hardly your size, Kevin.”
    *
    As we drove up the M1 en route to Edinburgh,
I told Sandi all about my trip to Scotland and the people I’d met.
It was nice being alone with Sandi again – it seemed like our past
differences were forgotten, and we seem to be getting on better
than we’d done for years. After talking for a bit, we put on the
radio, enjoying the music and banal chatter. Then a news item
caught my attention, and I turned up the volume.
    “ Police are looking for a man, in his
late thirties, who abducted a woman from a hospital in London. The
woman was in Intensive Care and her life could be at risk. The man
is journalist Kevin Lee and the woman Sandi Green, though they may
be using aliases. Full descriptions of both people are on the
Metropolitan Police’s website. The public are advised not to approach the couple as the man could be armed and dangerous. Anyone with any information as to
their whereabouts is asked to contact their local police station,
or telephone … ”
    “Jeeze…they didn’t waste any time, did
they?”
    “Why are they doing this Kevin?”
    “It’s not them doing it Sandi – well not
directly anyway. It’s the virus – the alien virus.”
    “I know you believe this, Kevin, but it’s
difficult to take in. I can’t help thinking that we could be making
a terrible mistake.”
    “Despite what happened to you at the
office?”
    “I don’t really know what happened there. I
know I could have been drugged – but why? If it was Trevor, what
has he got to do with all this? How would he know anything about us
looking into Frank Peters’ death?”
    “You’ve just got to forget that people are
doing this – they’re only following orders from their
virus–infected minds. And it’s not unusual for extraterrestrial
things to come to Earth. Every day small stones and dust hit the
Earth from outer space. Is it so difficult to imagine that a virus
from another planet was carried by solar winds to the Earth? We
have lots of viruses on the planet already – why not another one
from outside our solar system?”
    Sandi was pensive for a few minutes. I knew
it was difficult for her to take in. She was always the
down–to–earth one in our relationship. She liked to discuss
feelings and emotions, watched Audrey Hepburn movies, and read
things like Cosmopolitan and 50 Shades of Grey . I, on
the