Hours later Alex was putting the babies down for a nap, as both were already asleep, and smiling.
They were fun to play with, and precoscious. He wandered off, two doors down, to wake Lorna.
Just as he got in the room, there was a heaving rolling thunder, and then the door of Alex and Lorna's room seemed to fold and twist even as a hole opened int he middle of the nursery, and little green creatures poured out, grabbed the kids, and ran down the hole.
In the doorway, where they had witnessed this, Cable and Domino stood, shellshocked, and then exploded into action. Cable fell t the floor of the hole and his mind launched a probe downward even as he sent Domino to the armory. Anger and fear roared in him as he stared downward, unable to feel the children.
Just then, Alex blasted a hole in the doorspace and charged out, to gape.