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distance with their minds. In their case, their tentacles must direct that power, but it’s the glands in their necks that produce it.”
    “And did you notice how Rotnim’s tentacles are longer than the others’?” Penelope Ann asked. “He must be the strongest of the bunch.”
    “That explains why he’s their leader,” Aria added. “He must be some sort of captain on board their space ship.”
    Carmen threw up her hands. “This is nuts! You’re talking about aliens and space ships and telekinesis. This isn’t Star Trek, you know.”
    Aria rolled her eyes and turned her back on Carmen. “Shut your face, fool. If you can’t talk sense, then stick a sock in it. I’m not talking to you anymore.”
    Penelope Ann got to her feet. Slime stuck her golden tresses to her face and neck. “Aria’s right. You’ve done nothing but antagonize the rest of us since you first walked into my bakery this morning. If you can’t stop getting in our way, then move over and let us do our own thing. We’re trying to have a conversation here about the creatures who abducted us. This information will help us when it comes time to escape.”
    “No one is escaping with those....those things around,” Carmen replied. “You saw the way they controlled our every move. If we’re going to escape at all, we’ll have to do it when they aren’t around.”
    Penelope Ann whirled around. “You saw me put that piece of trash on the ground in two seconds. I would have smashed his head to smithereens if his friends hadn’t saved him. These creatures maybe have some kind of telekinetic power, but they aren’t invincible. We can defeat them if we fight back, so stop making excuses to sit on your backside and wring your hands. We’ve got a battle to plan here, and you aren’t helping at all.”
    Carmen started to say something, but Marissa stepped between them. “Everybody cool your jets. We have no reason to call Carmen a coward just because she thinks we should take a careful approach to planning our escape. She’s right that the aliens’ telekinetic power puts our escape in a whole new light. If we can plan to avoid them, we should do it. That only makes sense.”
    Carmen looked up at her face. “Thank you, Marissa.”
    Marissa nodded at her. “You have to admit, though, Carmen, Penelope Ann proved these aliens can be overpowered by strength. They held us with their telekinetic power, but only Rotnim dared to come anywhere near us. They must understand they’re fundamentally weaker than we are. Now we know they can be defeated, we might try fighting back a little harder when the time comes.”
    “As long as we wait until the time comes,” Carmen replied, “I’m willing to go along with that. But I don’t want anybody throwing themselves at a brick wall, busting their heads and breaking bones.”
    “I understand,” Marissa replied.
    Aria spun around. “We’ll bust their heads and break their bones.”
    Marissa held up her hand. “Carmen has a point. We should save our strength for a time when we’ll have the best chance of success.”
    “Not necessarily,” Penelope Ann countered. “They plan to sell us, so they won’t want us bashed up or damaged. Rotnim said so himself. Maybe if we fought back harder now, they’ll back down.”
    “You can’t tell me Rotnim will back down on anything,” Carmen argued. “He’s ruthless and bloodthirsty. If he thinks we would rather damage ourselves than cooperate, he won’t waste his time on us. He’ll kill us.”
    Marissa placed herself between Carmen and Penelope Ann. “Okay, okay. Enough arguing. There are four of us and four of them, and we have a common enemy. If we’re going to get out of here, we have to work together, not fight amongst ourselves. Now I’m making a decision that we’re going to stop talking about this right now. We need rest before they come back for us again.”
    “If they have telekinetic power,” Carmen pointed out, “they can probably read