Chapter Three – Decision Time
CARRIE PULLED UP THE zip on her Transgalactic Galactic Liaison Officer jumpsuit. With her other hand, she drew a sleeve across her teary face and checked it in her bedroom mirror. She swallowed the sob that was rising in her throat.
Dave was waiting in her kitchen. The transgalactic gateway under her sink would open in less than five minutes, and they would be travelling together to their assignment briefing before embarking on their mission back in time to find the placktoids.
Her friend had been kind when she’d mumbled the news of her redundancy. He hadn’t said ‛I told you so’ or anything similar. He hadn’t even smiled. In fact, he’d looked sad and concerned. But somehow that didn’t seem to reduce her feelings of humiliation. The news that she was being l
