Chapter 10: Banana in a bar
The automatic doors of the convenience store slid shut behind Peter as he hurried to catch up with his new acquaintance. “My name’s Sam by the way” she said as he caught up “Nice to meet you, sort of” Peter replied, falling into step with her. “So how comes you guys have coffee?” Peter had briefly considered whether he should have been more focussed on the alien mind control, but for the time being all he could focus was that delightful hot beverage. “We stocked up before they decided mankind shouldn’t have such delights” she was looking around, presumably for sign of the alien, but the street was empty. “What they got against coffee? Seems an odd thing to mind control another planet over” “No one’s sure. Silas, the scientist that spoke to you back at the lab, he thinks it is part of an experiment” “But you?” “I think they like torturing us” “I’d have thought that mind controlling aliens could come up with more effective forms of torture?” “They’re playing the long ga