24 [Just Before]

Three tall Figures and one stout, Orb-touting hominid came towards me as I was closing my office door for the last time… shock and awe.

I knew they weren’t from around here.

I do know that we all had just met in the lecture hall, about an hour ago.

I am having a ‘close encounter of the third kind’… standing in a creaky old University hallway?

Somehow, I was… calm. Something tells me this is… OK.

I wonder what the funny blue-yellow glow around each of them meant… protection force-field?

There was a very… odd… smell…

^^Dr. Thomas, Consortium is decided^^

I could hear the communication, but their mouths never moved.

Telepathic?

Maybe they’re from Telos III, and I’m now violating a Star Fleet directive?

^^Invite you, we do… join us. Please accept. There is immediate need, hu-muns, all hu-muns to hear you, one last lecture.^^

I could tell the communication I was hearing in my head came from the tall, lithe, pale one in the middle… how did I know that?.

^^We go now?^^

The stout creature with a smoking orb held close to his face, looking like a happy-faced Pug, moved just a bit closer.

^^My ship… taste better^^

crisbaj

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