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“Yes, Shrisa,” Okhet said.
She placed a hand on my arm and tugged on me to lead me away. I resisted.
“What am I doing here?” I said, surprised my voice sounded so steady.
There was no mirth, no kindness in the eyes of this Shrisa. She leaned in so close I felt her breath on my face.
“You’re here to do what I say,” she said. “Now, get back to that room or you’ll wish you stayed sleeping in the pod for the rest of your days!”
She slammed the door in my face.
Pod?
Where was I? What was I doing here?
I had no idea what was going on in this place.
Okhet placed a gentle hand on my arm.
“Come on,” she said. “Let’s get you back inside.”
Dozens of figures had stepped from their rooms and gawped at me. Each one had brightly colored skin or some other odd feature.
I could stand there and be a spectacle to these people or I could let Okhet wrap me in her warm arms.
Right at that moment, I knew which one was more appealing.
I leaned heavily into Okhet as she took me back to the Wake Up Room. I didn’t need long to figure out what’d happened to me.
I’d been abducted, and now I was living with a bunch of female aliens.
I had hit rock bottom.
Okhet helped me into some comfortable clothes and gave me a bed in one of the rooms the gawking girls came out of earlier. They were dorm rooms, with dozens of beds in each. The girls were grouped by species. With no other humans, I was alone. My bed was beside Okhet’s.
I was too depressed to fight. When morning rolled around and Okhet poked me awake (she really didn’t need to as I’d been awake all night) I ignored her.
“I understand this must come as a shock to you,” she said. “But you’re going to get in trouble if you don’t get up.”
I didn’t stir so much as a muscle and continued staring at the same spot on the wall.
It took less than twenty minutes before Shrisa stomped into the room.
“What is she still doing in bed?” she screeched.
“The pod takes a lot out of humans,” Okhet said, covering for me. “I think she was in that pod for a long time.”
I really had no idea how long I’d been away from Earth. What if it’d been centuries? What if there were no humans alive back on Earth when I got there?
As if I needed something else to worry about.
“Creator condemn us!” Shrisa said. “I swear if I was sold a faulty human…”
She threw up her hands in agitation.
“Fine,” she said. “But she’d better recover soon. Every day she’s not working, she’s only increasing her debts.”
She left and Okhet sat on the edge of my bed.
