Sarah stood there, mystified. She clutched her forehead for a moment. There was something going on, Kyla seemed apathetic or oblivious...but Sarah would figure it out.
She couldn't shake the feeling that somehow, that alien entity had changed her. Some things she now saw more clearly. She felt more focused on the world around her and less on...herself. That was it...
Sarah headed out of the narrow hallway toward the central area of the mall where she had come from, her mind miles away from the world around her, thinking about the implications, despite the fact she'd just decided the change was she was looking at the world differently.
She was jolted out of her reverie by someone calling her name. "Sarah? Where are you going?"