Night Owls

Jerry glanced down at the photograph in his hand, then back up again at the woman sitting alone at the back of the cafe.

"She has the same eyes, but..." Jerry hesitates. "She seems to have aged at least 20 years." Something strange is going on.

All at once a blinding light coursed through the space. Jerry and the woman froze. And then a creature appeared, seemingly from the air itself.

It bends time! "She's older, although she should be my age," Jerry thinks. Cowardly he looks for an exit, feeling guilty that he can't go through the creature to help the woman.