Night Owls

Jerry glanced down at the photograph in his hand, then back up again at the woman sitting alone at the back of the cafe.

His superiors said she would be here, but he hadn’t expected her to be so alert. How was he to get close to her now?

All at once a blinding light coursed through the space. Jerry and the woman froze. And then a creature appeared, seemingly from the air itself.

“Stop, humans! The mistake you are about to make will have disastrous repercussions for centuries to come!”