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.

They looked remarkably similar, save for the sparkly red blazer the woman wore as she sipped her passionfruit iced tea.

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.

Jerry reached out to touch it, but before he could, another flash of light made the creature disappear as quickly as it had arrived.