Benjamin started running calculations behind his eyes and Derek pulled up alongside them, excited.
‘So that went well then?’ he asked and passed Benjamin back his spilled cup.
Herbert raised both his thumbs. ‘It’s certainly the cure for apathy,’ he told him. ‘Invigorating, rushing through these lines while everything outside has its pace dialled back. Colours that you haven’t seen before, little light orbs racing about alongside. It’s already more than I dared to expect, if I’m honest.’
All three heads turned to the saucer then, as though it were a new personality being introduced into the fold. Quiet and inert, the craft floated amongst them. Fantastical, perhaps, yet wicked and certainly not yet ready for Felicity’s introduction.
‘Well you’ve done it, Ben,’ Herbert said with a pinch
