"Hmm, true. You never know when they might suddenly want to save a whole litter of baby skunks," he said with a grin. "You didn't have to ask though. Cassie's not here." But if what those aliens had said was true, then Cassie was certainly in one of those pods.

"Yeah, there's kickass stuff. Doesn't change the fact that we've got no control, we don't know whether anything we're being told is true, and there are freaking tentacles everywhere."