"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

"Do you remember much more?" I asked.

"I remember… I'd been working on an algorithm to detect small scale electrical activity when my superior called me into a secret meeting. I remember going, but I don't remember the meeting at all. After that…" Roa's voice trailed off and I got the sense that this was where the horror started. "I just remember not being able to move, but also somehow moving. It was like… I was watching a movie of my life, unable to do anything." He shivered.

I wondered if my hosts felt that same level of dread when I possessed them. The seagull I was in immediately disagreed with this, musing that we always had a two-way communication going on at any given moment, not to mention the time shifts. I thanked it internally for allaying my concerns.

"So, do you know more or less what's been going on?" I asked.

"I… guess so?" replied Roa. "Everything's a bit hazy, but I don't think anything's missing…"

Chapter Sixty-Nine: Answers and Questions