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to
start running.
          "Our worst fears have been
realized," the voice said. "The most terrible thing that has ever
happened to our world is on its way."
          "Why are you telling me this?
I'm a little short on miracles here."
          The voice on the other end of the
line laughed.
          "Oh, but my dear, you know
where all the miracles are buried. That's what we paid you to do all those
years, wasn't it?"
          The woman stopped, the phone still
pressed to her ear, and stared at an expensive black car that hadn't been there
moments before. She waited for enforcers to step out and grab her, but they
never did.
          "That car is empty. The keys
are in the ignition. You'll find travel papers in the glove box," the
voice said.
          "I'm perfectly capable of
getting my own papers, thank you," the woman said.
          "Just trying to save you
time. You do have a lot of work to do."
          "And what type of work is
that, exactly?" she asked, taking off her sunglasses and opening the car
door.
          "Welcome to the side of the
angels, my dear," the voice said.
          "My fee structure hasn't
changed. I don't care if I'm working for Heaven itself," she said.
          "And we'd not have it any
other way," the voice said.
          The woman slammed the car door and
drove away, heading for the nearest airport.
         

 
     
     
    Chapter
5:
    The
Origin of Dude (or: All the flying elephants are gone)
         
         
    Billy toyed nervously with a remote
control, the device which it controlled a complete mystery to him, as Emily and
Jane tinkered with the futuristic videophone in the Tower's command center.
They were trying to patch Titus and Kate in from the road, and for some reason
neither of them wanted to ask Neal to do it.
          Billy looked at Doc, who watched
the small argument between the two women with weary confusion.
          "Why don't they ask Neal to
patch them in?" Billy whispered to Doc.
          "I…" he said, before
making a vague, confused gesture with his hands.
          Working on the assumption it
actually controlled the television in Emily's room, Billy pointed the remote
control at the videophone anyway, pressed a few buttons, and suddenly Titus's
face lit up on the room's main monitor.
          "Oh, there you are,"
Titus said.
          "I told you I could figure it
out," Emily said.
          Billy and Doc exchanged looks,
then both shook their heads "no," but didn't correct her.
          "Where are you?" Jane
asked the giant Titus-face on the screen.
          "We're on the highway. Kate's
driving." The werewolf angled his phone so that everyone could see Kate in
the driver's seat. She looked through the camera from the corner of her eye and
then turned her attention back to the road.
          "Kate can drive?" Emily
asked.
          "One of us should know how,"
Titus said. "Do you?"
          "I don't drive, I float,"
Emily said.
          "So what's going on?"
Titus said.
          Jane gave him the thirty thousand
foot overview—alien crash landing on earth with the same powers as Straylight,
possible invasion imminent, Billy's plan to go scouting while the rest of them
prepared. The worry on Titus's face was comically apparent projected on a
screen so large, and even Kate, steadfastly trying to remain her usual stoic
self, kept looking over at the camera as if to verify Jane was telling the
truth.
          "So this is a nightmare,"
Titus said.
          "I wish," Emily said.
          "What do we know?" Kate
asked, eyes remaining on the road.
          "We believe this is an
invasion force that Straylight's species has faced before," Doc said.
          "Which is helpful,"
Titus said, his voice dripping in sarcasm, "given that we know almost
nothing about Straylight's species in the first place. So what's the deal,
Billy? Does Dude have some good intel for us?"