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“What happened here?” Jenny asks. Something happened just before she arrived, that much has already been made clear. But everything is quiet now.
“There were these… horrible creatures,” the man she is addressing says, shuddering. “I’d never seen anything like them. I think they wanted to take over the planet. Starting with our neighborhood.”
She raises an eyebrow. “How did you get rid of them, then?”
“Us?” He snorts. “We didn’t do much. We couldn’t. But there were these people, they showed up in a blue thing and… well, I’m not actually sure what they did, but—”
“Let me guess,” she says, intuition screaming. “They did a lot of running.”
“I suppose so… we all did, though.”
“And they defeated the creatures, and saved the planet?”
He blinks, and nods. “Pretty much. And then they left.”
“Yeah.” Jenny sighs. “They usually do that.”
This isn’t the first time she’s arrived somewhere only to find that she missed her father by an hour — or even less. Oh well. She’ll catch up to him eventually, she’s sure.
Well, she’s here anyway, on a world she’s never seen before, so she smiles at the man. “Anything I can do to help clean up?”