"I was so worried about you boys!" Diana said.
"We missed you too... uhh, careful Mom," Zac said. "I wanna continued breathing."
There were 26 people from the ship unaccounted for.
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They stopped for petrol on their way home. While they were there, Isaac spotted someone who looked familiar to him. He frowned, trying to think where he had seen her before.
"Ike?" Taylor asked.
Isaac looked at him, and then pointed to the girl.
"Is it just me or does she look familiar?"
Taylor looked at her and considered for a moment.
"There is something rather... ooh..."
"Ooh? What's ooh?"
Taylor did some quick telepathic checking.
"You remember... well, it was a while ago now... while we were on our promo? You were doing your usual shape shifting into other people thing at the mall and pretended to be an alien?"
Isaac snapped his fingers.
"That's right! She's the girl I tricked! Oooh... how about a part 2?"
Taylor grinned.
"Oh, wait, I don't remember what I looked like," Isaac said.
"I can show you," Taylor said. "I'll refresh the memory in your mind for you."
"Okay, great!"
Once Isaac remembered what he had said, done and looked like, he shape shifted in secret and made his way over to the girl.
"Pst!" he hissed.
The girl looked around.
"You!"
"Keep it down," Isaac looked around nervously. "We can't be overheard."
"Right," the girl nodded, looking around too. "What... is there... the FAIU, are they still after you?"
"They're always after me. They never leave me alone. But listen, I need your help."
"Yes?"
"I need you to mail this postcard for me," Isaac said giving her the postcard as if it were beyond value.
The girl looked at him dubiously.
"You see post boxes everywhere have been fitted with an ADU - Alien Detection Unit. If I post this postcard, then the post box will reach out and grab me, and inject me with a special kind of sedative. No, I need a human to post this postcard for me. It's very important."
"And I suppose... you've written this message on it to look normal, but it's really a secret code?"
"Yes."
Isaac paused and looked around some more.
"I'd better go," he said. "If they see me with you, your life will be in danger too. Please post the postcard, and don't tell a soul."
"Okay," the girl nodded.
"Thank you," and Isaac scurried off, shape shifted back to normal and returned to his family.
Taylor was waiting for him with a grin on his face.
"So, how'd it go?"
Isaac grinned and sent him a video. Taylor cracked up.
"Who did you send it to?" he said.
"What? The postcard? You know the house on your street that's for sale?"
"Yeah? Oh it's going there?"
"Yep!"
The brothers laughed.