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“I couldn’t move,” he said. “I was stuck there, pinned in place. I couldn’t escape. Then the light grew brighter and brighter until…”
His eyes fixed on mine.
“It sucked you up into the sky,” I said.
“How could you know that?” he said.
“Because it happened to me too.”
I took a seat on one side of the dining table. I couldn’t sit on the bed. Not with a stranger. It seemed too… intense.
“We were abducted,” I said.
“Oh, man,” Chax said, falling into the opposite chair.
He was big and swamped it. He placed his head in his hands.
“Your name’s Chax?” I said. “Where are you from?”
“Phod,” Chax said.
“Phod?” I said. “Where’s that?”
“In the Phodrian solar system.”
“Solar system?”
My eyes bulged and I leaned back in my chair.
“Wait,” I said. “You’re telling me you’re an alien?”
“Sure. You are too. To me.”
I never thought of it like that before.
“But you look so human,” I said.
“Human? That’s what your species is called. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of humans before. Are you a space-faring race?”
“Space-faring? Well, yeah, I guess so.”
“How many colonies does your species have?”
“Colonies?”
“You know, other planets, moons.”
“Uh. None. Just our moon.”
His shoulders fell.
“Then there’s not much chance your species is going to come rescue us,” he said.
“Not for at least a few more hundred years,” I said. “What about your… species?”
The terms felt funny on my tongue. Planets. Moons. Solar systems. Species. I felt like I was back in physics class.
“I’m a Titan. We have one of the largest empires in the galaxy.”
