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his arms. He howled in agony, but Penelope Ann wasn’t finished with him. She drew back her foot to deliver another kick, but before it landed, the other three aliens turned on her with their tentacles fully extended. Penelope Ann froze with her foot in mid-swing.
    The invisible force field caught hold of Carmen. It held all four women motionless. Rotnim lay on the floor and groaned. A lavender liquid oozed from the side of his head. Carmen stared at the three aliens, but they didn’t move. They regarded their prisoners across the chamber and made no attempt to approach them.
    Then their invisible power moved the women, across the room, away from the vehicle that brought them there. Carmen didn’t bother to struggle this time. Nothing could fight against this force. How could they ever escape from creatures with this ability to control and act from a distance? But at least she knew now what she was up against. Any plan she came up with would have to take the Romarie’s power into consideration.
    The aliens moved their captives to a corner of the big chamber, where a door opened in a side panel. Carmen and her companions floated through it into another plain white box with no windows, no toilet, no anything. The door slammed shut behind them.

Chapter 4
     
    Carmen crawled across the cold steel floor to Penelope Ann. “Are you all right?”
    Penelope Ann coughed and wiped slime off her face. “I’m fine. I don’t think we can say the same thing for...what’s his name.”
    Aria cackled with glee. “You really showed him, girl. I’ve never seen anything like that.”
    Penelope Ann smiled at her, but said nothing.
    “Why didn’t you tell me?” Carmen asked.
    Penelope Ann cocked her head to one side. “What do you mean?”
    “I saw you out there,” Carmen replied. “I saw the way you chopped at his neck with your hands and the way you headlocked him. You’ve got hand-to-hand combat training.”
    Penelope Ann shrugged. “What if I have?”
    “Why didn’t you tell me?” Carmen asked.
    “What good would it have done?” Penelope Ann returned. “You wanted to believe you were the big, strong police officer who would get us out of this situation and the rest of us were weak, helpless maidens in distress.”
    Carmen blushed. “I didn’t think that.”
    Penelope Ann shifted her weight to one side. “Call it what you want. You didn’t believe any of us could be any good in a fight, but you didn’t bother to find out if you were right or wrong. Well, now you know you were wrong.”
    “What training do you have?” Carmen asked.
    Penelope Ann looked the other way.
    “If you’d spent any time in our neighborhood at all,” Aria told her, “you would know Penelope Ann is a national champion jujitsu competitor. She brought home the grand title the last four years running.”
    Carmen stared at Penelope Ann with new eyes. Penelope Ann was right. Carmen never considered any of these women would offer anything that could help them escape. Now her whole concept of their situation rearranged itself. They still couldn’t fight back against the aliens’ psychic power, but Penelope Ann’s combat skill changed everything.
    A glimmer of hope entered in Carmen’s mind. She wasn’t alone in this the way she thought she was. She could count on at least one of these women when the hammer came down. Maybe the others had skills she could count on, too.
    “Did you see the black spots on his neck when you hit him?” Marissa asked. “And the way his tentacles withdrew into his face when he was hurt. Those spots must be the source of their telekinetic power.”
    Carmen rounded on her. “What are you talking about?”
    Marissa faced her. “You saw the same things I did. They manipulated and controlled us with their tentacles. They never touched us until Rotnim decided to help himself to Penelope Ann, but they held us still and moved us around with their power. That power is called telekinesis. It means they can act from a