Twenty
The two humanoid beings appeared from nowhere inside The Meifod Claw as the craft gently and invisibly stopped above the lights of Welshpool. It was a shock; Benjamin jumped and the craft lurched for a moment before levelling them out so they could each look at the other pair.
The two sudden guests were tall and almost hunched over inside the craft. At least one of them appeared to be female; they both had long silver hair with clothing that near matched it in colour and reflected moments of light quite of their own accord. The boys felt as though they were staring, but then neither of them were quite comfortable looking at their faces, which were close enough in form to their own but changed with finer details. It was a little disconcerting.
‘Herbert, say something,’ Benjamin to
