"A goddamn force field?!" Eliot yelled at the tower, sounding personally offended by this. "Freakin' aliens." He turned back towards Sparkle. "Sorry, kid. It seems like someone decided we're all stuck here for whatever these things have in mind for us."

He was so beating up the next person who gave him even the slightest excuse. Probably a rickshaw driver who grinned creepily at him.