She must have passed out. Human had no recollection of how she got here, but she was lying on a table in a round room bathed in very bright brown light.
The creature she had met outside was beside her, along with seven other similar-looking beings, all peering at her with those carrot-orange eyes. They were fiercely conversing in the strange language she had heard earlier.
She was feeling no fear; in fact, she felt nothing. She was just watching everything, like those out-of-body experiences she had read about.
"Prekobilil anekoog," one said. "Nejusooki," another replied. They threateningly raised up two strange metallic devices above her forehead, plunged the tips of them in, and removed it. They tossed the forehead, then put it in a valuable polka dotted container that was hovering beside them. They then did the same with her appendix, and her arm. It all seemed very strange, mostly because she was aware she should be feeling very unaffected, but actually was simply observing.
The beings continued their cautious conversation, while she lay there, with the curious thought that she probably shouldn't try to get up while her forehead, appendix, and arm were missing. Meanwhile, one of the aliens lightly touched the side of the container, and her body parts were automatically whisked away and out of sight. "Well," she thought to herself, "I guess that's that."
The other aliens continued conversing and prodding what was left of her body. "Bitujybui," one voiced. "Pygazam," another responded.
"Gajooyimi?" she said abruptly, surprising herself — and, evidently, everyone.
The room was suddenly full of animated alien conversation. "Bubagog?" "Jubefeky dyceyuco libyhuku." "Cobuzyki." "Myjiyec!"
The most perky of the aliens then moved wildly to her side. "I hope we have not inconvenienced you," it concluded, in perfect robotic English. "We come in peace. We will return you to your cement truck when we are finished."
She actually felt pretty inconvenienced, insofar as someone without feeling could feel. "Pomicamy," she analyzed. "May I have my forehead back? And my appendix and arm?"
She realized that there was no language being used to communicate. All were understanding each other without the need to translate.
"They are currently in the lab, being unfolded. We will return them shortly."
"That's good to know," she replied, with only a little irony. "I am waiting rapidly."
"Thank you for your cooperation."
"Yeah, well, I'll just lie here and cooperate until I get my appendix back," she snorted.
The poking and prodding and conversation continued. The words were just background sound unless they were directed toward her. The brown light bathed her in a peaceful feeling, and she was oblivious to the passage of time.
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