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 emerald green light.
The creature she had met outside was beside her, along with four other similar-looking beings, all peering at her with those tan eyes. They were effortlessly 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.
"Flymoonoodoon upagog," one said. "Leboyole," another replied. They dubiously raised up two strange metallic devices above her forehead, plunged the tips of them in, and removed it. They refurbished the forehead, then put it in a funny indigo container that was hovering beside them. They then did the same with her arm, and her intestine. It all seemed very strange, mostly because she was aware she should be feeling very embarrassed, but actually was simply observing.
The beings continued their tired conversation, while she lay there, with the curious thought that she probably shouldn't try to get up while her forehead, arm, and intestine 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. "@#%#^@%$@!," she thought to herself, "I guess that's that."
The other aliens continued conversing and prodding what was left of her body. "Negoofagyy," one peeped. "Kedegok," another responded.
"Dadowamo?" she said abruptly, surprising herself — and, evidently, everyone.
The room was suddenly full of animated alien conversation. "Tubycud?" "Loogoojitoo tatyjuky celarylo." "Lalogypi." "Kugyroj!"
The most intelligent of the aliens then moved sympathetically to her side. "I hope we have not inconvenienced you," it analyzed, in perfect robotic English. "We come in peace. We will return you to your Kia Rio when we are finished."
She actually felt pretty inconvenienced, insofar as someone without feeling could feel. "Kagefookoo," she queried. "May I have my forehead back? And my arm and intestine?"
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 grabbed. We will return them shortly."
"That's good to know," she replied, with only a little irony. "I am waiting glibly."
"Thank you for your cooperation."
"Yeah, well, I'll just lie here and cooperate until I get my arm back," she avowed.
The poking and prodding and conversation continued. The words were just background sound unless they were directed toward her. The emerald green light bathed her in a peaceful feeling, and she was oblivious to the passage of time.
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