Chapter 9
Henry Diggs rang the doorbell and then waited patiently. A peephole in the door finally swung open and he could see that he was being looked over.
"I'm Henry Diggs from the Board of Education. I'm here to collect some herbs from the greenhouse."
The peephole shut and then the door swung open. A tiny old woman greeted him and apologized.
"Sorry about all these precautions, but after the last riot, when the greenhouse was attacked by the aliens, and many of the herbs destroyed we have to be careful."
"It wasn't really a riot," he chastised the old woman gently, "we don't have those any more it was a form of mass hysteria probably brought on by the galactic storms."
"Call it what you will," the old woman grumbled and led him into the elevator. They started to move down, faster
