like people, and everyone is fooled. I can see some differences but most of the time even I can’t tell them apart. Only Steven knows how to really spot them.”
“Do you know how Steven spots them?” The Doctor asked.
“No, he doesn’t tell me those things, or at least he hasn’t yet.”
“How do you spot them then?” Hays redirected the questions. “I mean the ones that you can spot.”
“Sometimes its a strangeness that I pick up. Either they will be doing things that seem opposite from the norm, or they’ll say something that doesn’t ring quite right.” He stopped and thought some more. “And then there is something in the eyes.”
“What do you mean?”
“Something like a blackness around their eyes and it swirls like a hurricane around the socket, sometimes covering the person’s eyes entirely.”
“And you can see this…this blackness, but other people can’t?” The doctor asked.
Richard again nodded.
“And these dreams that you have, are they about the aliens as well?”
“Yes. In my dreams the aliens are always after me. I’m always trying to get somewhere, but I can never remember where I’m trying to get to. They’re trying to stop me.”
“In your dreams, you can see them?” The doctor asked. “I mean for what they are, you see them as aliens?”
“Not at first. At first everyone and everything appear normal, but the closer I get to where I’m going, I begin to see the ones who are off. Just strange things that don’t exactly make sense. Things that make you do a double take and if you don’t catch it fast the moment is gone and everything appears normal.”
“I understand I think.”
“It’s like the times that you think maybe you saw something, and you look again, but by the time you look back everything is normal. They’re that good. Steven says that you have to train your mind to see everything the first time. ‘The omniscient mind that sees everything’ is the only way to beat them according to Steven.”
Richard shifted uneasily in his seat, somewhat uncomfortable about even talking about it.
“Once they know, that I know… I guess that’s when things go bad. There are others, who turn all the way alien. Steven calls it ‘flipping alien’ and they come after me at first, but eventually they call in aliens that are only alien. Or at least they don’t want me to see their human form, or else I’ll know their identity. If that even makes sense. They are like soldier aliens. They are bigger, faster, and more aggressive than the others. It is the last ditch effort of the aliens to prevent me from reaching wherever I’m going.”
“But you can’t remember where you’re going?”
“No, It could be anywhere, or nowhere, I don’t really know.”
“And why are the aliens chasing you? I mean if Steven is the one who knows all about them, why aren’t they chasing him?”
“Steven says that there is something special about me, that’s the reason the aliens chase me, and I think that’s the reason why Steven helps me.”
“Very interesting…” Doctor Hays said. It was as if the Doctor was fascinated by what Richard had to say. “Do you believe that the aliens are real Richard?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well before, you said that you had just been reckless, I gathered the impression that you believed that you had the accident. I thought perhaps that you had remembered details of that night. Now I think that