Chapter Ten – Apate’s Excursion
FLINGING OPEN THE PUB door, Carrie sped out into the night. The women had told her Dave had also left, but when she looked up and down the street neither he nor Apate were anywhere to be seen. Picking a direction at random, she ran down the road, scanning from side to side for a sight of the alien. At her size, she should have been easy to spot, even in the weak lamplight, but Carrie saw no one resembling her among the late night pedestrians. She turned down another street, but there was still no sign of the escapee.
Then Carrie remembered Rob lived some distance from the pub and came by car. She stopped running and, panting, turned back the way she had come. There was no way she would catch up to Apate if she was in a car. The only place she knew of conne
