For a beat, hearing Kenji was there too, Lyall shut his eyes against what could have happened. Thank god it didn't. "It was, yes... but I know a lot of people wanted to go see that thing." And they were teenage boys faced with a mystery and too little information. He never should have brought it up on the network, but that would have been irresponsible, too.

Opening his eyes again, he had to ask: "What did it look like? Did you see it clearly? I haven't seen them yet... I've only smelled them."