"I'm actually an alien," says the little girl.

I have no idea how to take this, Lachlan thinks. His training as a security guard didn't cover it, nor did it cover how to deal with running into a hot guy from a past he's trying to hide from, or avoid alien conspiracies when they come knocking.

Wait, what? That last one must be wrong, aliens aren't real.

...Right?

Head In The Stars

I carefully lay Millie back down while Moira busied around with something. I wiped the blood away from Millie's nose with my sleeve.

I looked up to find Moira holding a cable with a clip on the end. "What's that?" I asked with reservation.

"Just some monitors. The machine needs them to assess the situation."

I didn't have time to second guess her, so I took the cable from her and helped get them connected to Millie. The moment we finished, the holographic screen still floating above warped and changed to displaying a stream of data. Most of it I couldn't understand but I could tell that the shifting number on the bottom left was Millie's heart rate.

"I thought you said this would happen in half an hour," I said.

Ch. 43 - Truth