Chapter Eight – Apate Makes Herself at Home
CARRIE HEARD IRRITATION in Errruorerrrrrhch’s tone as she spoke to her manager, even though she had sent in a very detailed and mostly truthful report in the intervening day since she returned from Dandrobia. Of course, she had left out the part about Apate returning with her.
“Point the translator away from you into an open area,” said Errruorerrrrrhch.
Placing the device on her coffee table, Carrie pointed it at the space in front of her television. A bright, hazy beam shone out, containing a hologram of her giant insectoid Transgalactic Council manager. Towering nearly to Carrie’s ceiling, Errruorerrrrrhch’s form was only slightly less horrific and fantastical than it was in real life.
She was alone in the room. Dave had left in a huff the
