Archie stared at the TV screen, which was now blank.
He plugged it in, waited for it to fire up, and turned to the others. “Maybe one of you should go after her.”
“Well, I’m not,” snapped Mandy.
They looked at Hilda.
“Me? I’m the last person she wants to see.”
“But you’re from the same planet.”
“Yes, but everything I say comes out all wrong. I’m not equipped for all this nice malarky.”
nice“I’ll do it,” said DJ, and with a slam of a door, he headed out, rattling the TV from its perch yet again.
Mandy made to grab and missed.
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Carter, lying on her back, her stomach still churning, attempted to look up with a belch.
She stopped with a grimace.
Her hair was trapped in the crevice of the couch.
She chanced a wriggle, a gentle tug, and stopped.
She heard a cough, shuffled foots
