"You'd better tell me what you know, toad," said Tiffany. "Miss Tick isn't here. I am."
"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "There. Happy now? That's what Miss Tick thinks. But it's happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back."
"Why?"
"There's no one to stop them."
There was silence for a moment.
"There's me," said Tiffany."
-Terry Pratchett, "The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)"
A man was with his daughter, shopping for clothes for her for school. He was listening to her talk about her friend's doll and how she wanted one just like it, when he saw something pass the large windows of the store. He glanced behind her to where he had seen something, but nothing was there: just sunshine and cars and busy people going about their business.
"Sir, it'll be forty-five dollars."
He blinked and glanced at the employee checking him out. He forced a smile onto his face. "Sorry. Here you go."
