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 grey light.
The creature she had met outside was beside her, along with five other similar-looking beings, all peering at her with those striped eyes. They were sorrowfully 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.
"Ghikadadub ojikym," one said. "Gujijoty," another replied. They ignobly raised up two strange metallic devices above her thyroid gland, plunged the tips of them in, and removed it. They sprayed the thyroid gland, then put it in a hideous jet black container that was hovering beside them. They then did the same with her skull, and her adrenal gland. It all seemed very strange, mostly because she was aware she should be feeling very bewildered, but actually was simply observing.
The beings continued their conceited conversation, while she lay there, with the curious thought that she probably shouldn't try to get up while her thyroid gland, skull, and adrenal gland 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. "Wild," she thought to herself, "I guess that's that."
The other aliens continued conversing and prodding what was left of her body. "Jonefatoe," one professed. "Goocuwom," another responded.
"Pudyvamoo?" she said abruptly, surprising herself — and, evidently, everyone.
The room was suddenly full of animated alien conversation. "Doocoojun?" "Bojyradi donyvogu cetayajy." "Daloofucu." "Jopufad!"
The most tall of the aliens then moved neatly to her side. "I hope we have not inconvenienced you," it harangued, in perfect robotic English. "We come in peace. We will return you to your Ford pickup when we are finished."
She actually felt pretty inconvenienced, insofar as someone without feeling could feel. "Kegufaji," she vowed. "May I have my thyroid gland back? And my skull and adrenal gland?"
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 brushed. We will return them shortly."
"That's good to know," she replied, with only a little irony. "I am waiting cheerfully."
"Thank you for your cooperation."
"Yeah, well, I'll just lie here and cooperate until I get my skull back," she interrupted.
The poking and prodding and conversation continued. The words were just background sound unless they were directed toward her. The grey light bathed her in a peaceful feeling, and she was oblivious to the passage of time.
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