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“Now, you see here!”
He is grabbed the same way PJ was, but unlike the pastor, he passes muster. The aliens look significantly at one another for long periods of time, as if they are having a conversation only they can hear.
Ted tries to fight, but the alien holding him ignores his struggles. They are irrelevant, the same way the struggles of vermin are irrelevant to the rat-catcher. They come to some kind of a decision, and Ted is taken by another of the aliens and dragged into the depths of the ship.
My mind is finally beginning to catch up to the reality of this situation. It is not a dream. We have been abducted by aliens who are sorting us based on criteria we do not understand, and they are willing to kill us.
I happen to glance behind me and see a hatchway open. It looks like the kind of panel that should probably be pressed into place on the wall, but has been left open for reasons. Maybe maintenance. Maybe sheer luck. I slide back through the group, which is already beginning to press away from the aliens as we all collectively realize we are being faced with the immediate prospect of death or something potentially worse.
I am first through the open hatch, squeezing myself into the open space and back-crawling away. I don’t think anybody else had seen it. They are too busy staring at the terrifying visages of our alien captors.
I figure I have a couple of minutes before they get through all the other people, or maybe less if everyone else works out that there’s an escape passage right behind them. I don’t know where I am going. I know there is no way off the ship besides down, but I do not want to be handled by those monstrous beings. I want to get as far away from them as possible. It is a small mercy that I have a head start into the bowels of this terrifying alien vessel which I can barely believe I find myself aboard.
“ONE IS MISSING! THE FEMALE WITH THE GENEROUS HAUNCHES.”
I hear the cry go out behind me, terrifying, but also accurate. I’ve never heard my big ass described as generous haunches before. No time to dwell. I have to escape as far as anyone trapped on an alien spacecraft can escape.
“FIND THE MISSING GIRL!”
I start running. At first, adrenaline makes it easy, but I have not run in twenty years. I have to hide, and quickly, because within about ten feet, I know I cannot physically run anymore. The aliens are gaining on me, and my body is already about to give way. At the very last moment, I see a little spot at the back of the cargo bay, a place tucked away where there’s just enough room for me to squeeze in and maybe avoid being caught. I rush for it, panting and sweating, and wedge myself in.
That is when my ass meets something warm. Something living.
I resist the urge to scream and give my location away, but I do immediately whip my head around to look at what I’ve encountered.
It’s an alien. An alien like the others who have captured us, though he is differently colored. He puts a scaled finger to my lips, stilling the second scream that threatens to escape me.
“Hi,” he grins. He is not serving the same attitude as the others who grabbed and handled me like meat. “Can you be quiet?”
I nod quickly.
We can barely both fit in this little hiding spot. I have ended up sitting in his lap, wedged firmly against his alien crotch. I can feel a familiar rising against my cheek, a very thick ridge that distracts me ever so slightly from the deep, existential terror I am immersed in.
He’s an alien like the others, but he’s clearly hiding from them, the same way I am. His eyes are a beautiful soothing gold, and his hair seems to have a green tint to it. His tusks are large, larger than the ones I saw on the others. He wraps a scaled arm around my waist, but I don’t feel trapped. I feel held.
“I’m Zain,” he growls warmly in my ear. “I’m here to save you.”
