Well, that couldn't have gone any better," Chris finally breathed easy.
"Yes, that was very big of you, Annabel, I'm proud," Susan came over and gave her quick hug.
"It was easy," Annabel explained. "I think I like her."
***
Michelle thought things were going well. She'd been on her own for a full two and a half days now and nothing had eaten her or even gripped her heel from the shadows as she descended any of the open stepped staircases in the Compound.
Her job involved a lot of sitting and listening. Listening to immensely powerful creatures voice their insecurities and problems about being exposed in broad daylight to humans. It was ironic, they were scared of the very people they looked down on as inferior. Perhaps it was always the way with the individually powerful and the mass
