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&039;I bet they don&039;t have shops Bet it&039;s all done fro a massive step back in time This will seem all dirty to them They&039;ll be used to sterile conditions I expect When you think about the technology they&039;ve got&039;

He stopped talking

I looked up to see rong and saw that he was staring further along the street There was a huge crowd approaching

&039;Fucking hell,&039; he gasped, &039;this must be it Bloody hell, this must be it! I bet there&039;s one of them in that lot&039;

We looked at each other for a fraction of a second before putting down our glasses and juures was now only some ten or fifteen metres away and I could see that as they e wave,with the flow Fro all that I could see was heads I cli on and then juht in the middle of someone&039;s round of drinks

&039;Bloody hell,&039; a man&039;s annoyed voice spat fro?&039;

He i when he beca noise He looked over his shoulderup onto the table next tohi up a lamppost

There must have been around a hundred to a hundred and fifty people walking towards us They seeh obviously excited by everything that was happening around them, they also see for position as far as I could see

At the very centre of the crowd, standing slightly taller than most of the assembled humans, were two aliens From where I stood I could see little e, white-haired heads As they approached, however, they gradually calanced across at Rob but he didn&039;t look back He was transfixed His eyes were fixed fir with the aliens had formed a deep and protective circle around thehtly h appearing y, slight and long of lith and poise They carried thenity and composure and did not seem at all fazed or pressurised by the relentless curiosity of the huathered around them

They were level with the front of the pub when theto all intents and purposes like just another member of the vast alien appreciation society, he stood motionless in thecrowd to s him up With his arms folded defiantly across his chest he stood and waited The peopleround a boulder in the middle of a stream - but when the aliens reached him they stopped The crowd fell silent when the aliens stopped

&039;I want to ask a question,&039; the h for everyone nearby to hear

&039;Ask,&039; replied the first alien in a htly monotonous voice

&039;I want to knohy you&039;re here?&039;

&039;You knoe&039;re here&039;

&039;What do you want?&039;

&039;You knoe want&039;

The man stared into the alien&039;s face and continued to stand his ground The second alien remained silent It pushed out its chest and lifted its head, ood six or seven inches taller than it had done originally Other than that no-one else moved There was a brief moment of silence and unexpected, almost unbearable tension

&039;I don&039;t trust you,&039; he hissed at the aliens, still glaring intently into the face of the first creature &039;I don&039;t care what you say or what you do, I just don&039;t fucking trust you&039;

The alien slowly lifted a single hand into the air and uncurled its unnaturally long fingers

&039;Stop,&039; it said, quietly and cal and take a look around you&039;

Obediently (perhaps instinctively) the man slowly and cautiously turned to look into the faces of the vast crohich surrounded him on all sides

&039;What?&039; he ood look around Howhere? How many other people don&039;t trust us? We don&039;t want anything froet home and that is all there is to it We&039;re sorry if you take objection to our being here, but there&039;s really nothing we can do about it&039;

The stand-off lasted for two or three seconds longer

&039;I just don&039;t believe you&039; the ain

&039;Go ho tone than that of its colleague &039;Please go home We don&039;t want any trouble&039;

Rather than wait to see if there would in fact be any trouble, the two aliens instead neatly side-stepped the lone protester and continued to an to babble and chatter again Less than half aalone on the pave down by his sides dejectedly, the sound of the passing crowd still ringing in his ears

&039;Shit,&039; Rob yelped as he slid down the lamppost and ran over to the table where I stood &039;Did you see that?&039;

&039;What was the uess he just wanted to&039;

&039;Not him,&039; Rob snapped, annoyed, &039;the aliens We saw one!&039;

&039;We sao,&039; I corrected

&039;I don&039;t believe it,&039; he sighed, grinning from ear to ear &039;I just don&039;t bloody well believe it!&039;

I climbed down off the table and picked up the remains of my pint

&039;Shall we head home then?&039; I asked I felt suddenly overco deal I had already seen a hundred of them on TV And as easy as it see it difficult to sile man we&039;d just watched

&039;What&039;s the matter with you?&039; Rob asked &039;Christ, it&039;s not even nine o&039;clock yet&039;

&039;I&039;m tired&039;

&039;No you&039;re not, you&039;re just a miserable bastard&039;

&039;I&039;m not, I just&039;

&039;Yes you are, you&039;re a bloody miserable bastard&039;

Suddenly extrean to walk back towards the car My brother reluctantly followed By the tiht up and was at h, weren&039;t they?&039; he said, his runted

&039;I just can&039;t get over how similar to us they are I mean, they&039;ve coot the same basic features as us - two eyes, two ears, a nose&039;

&039;I know&039;

&039;And they even walk the sah? I suppose that they&039; Realising that I wasn&039;t saying ?&039; he asked

&039;Nothing&039;

&039;Coht, is it?&039; I didn&039;t really knohat to say I shrugged my shoulders

&039;I just feel a bit odd, that&039;s all&039;

&039;Odd? Was it the beer or the heat or the crowds?&039;

&039;Don&039;t know&039;

That was the truth I didn&039;t knohy, but I suddenly felt uncomfortable and unnerved Was it because of thequestions that I had also wanted to ask He was only speaking out and saying as on hisin that But in today&039;s strange environment the ht of course - the vast majority of people didn&039;t see there Perhaps I just needed to be

We were quickly back at the car I unlocked the doors and got inside

We drove back towards Thatchaun after seeing the aliens

&039;How ?&039; Rob wondered &039;They&039;re et back Christ, it must be hard I remember when I went on my first cub camp - it was only down the road but it felt like ere a hundred ed half a smile

He had a point Hoould I feel if I ever found myself in their position? Hoould I feel trapped so that I held precious? How painful and frustrating would it be knowing that there were people back at ho forfor her?

After the shock of losing Muain soain I was dao