Chapter Fourteen – Too Close For Comfort
CARRIE, DAVE, AUDREY and the oootoon sat at one table at dinner, Belinda, the hairy thing, the squashpump and the insectoid alien sat at another. The light was by itself in the corner, flashing intermittently. Recharging? Carrie wondered. Belinda had her table in stitches with stories she was telling, and from the glances Carrie received from that direction, it seemed most of the stories were about her.
“I bet she’s telling them about my first assignment,” she said to Dave.
He shrugged. “What if she is? You uncovered the truth about what the placktoids were doing and revealed they had developed or stolen gateway technology. You did a great job, in the end.”
Carrie frowned at the final three words of her friend’s comment. “Yes, I did discover all
