“I bet they’d freak out knowing that we met real aliens.”

A thought struck Ru. “What if Randy tells them?”

Colleen was silent for a moment, her voice hesitant when she finally spoke. “Do you — maybe feel like it doesn’t matter?”

Something about that rang true, but Ru couldn’t pinpoint what. “Maybe? Things definitely felt different when I was transformed. I could sense all kinds of things that I can’t sense now. It even felt different just BEING on Iresca. Fuse said that Earth isn’t in the Accilean System, and we’re only partly connected?”