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 aqua light.
The creature she had met outside was beside her, along with two other similar-looking beings, all peering at her with those purple eyes. They were narrowly 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.
"Frenacacoot utiket," one said. "Kupasuny," another replied. They tensely raised up two strange metallic devices above her dignity, plunged the tips of them in, and removed it. They disguised the dignity, then put it in a flexible teal container that was hovering beside them. They then did the same with her buttocks, and her bladder. 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 ladylike conversation, while she lay there, with the curious thought that she probably shouldn't try to get up while her dignity, buttocks, and bladder 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. "Heck," she thought to herself, "I guess that's that."
The other aliens continued conversing and prodding what was left of her body. "Likesynye," one cackled. "Mumifed," another responded.
"Joodewumu?" she said abruptly, surprising herself — and, evidently, everyone.
The room was suddenly full of animated alien conversation. "Pijocad?" "Mikyvooba nulugobu cycezuce." "Bejivyci." "Dotural!"
The most bad of the aliens then moved glibly to her side. "I hope we have not inconvenienced you," it hinted, in perfect robotic English. "We come in peace. We will return you to your Saturn Vue when we are finished."
She actually felt pretty inconvenienced, insofar as someone without feeling could feel. "Dedozicu," she vowed. "May I have my dignity back? And my buttocks and bladder?"
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 hung. We will return them shortly."
"That's good to know," she replied, with only a little irony. "I am waiting suspiciously."
"Thank you for your cooperation."
"Yeah, well, I'll just lie here and cooperate until I get my buttocks back," she squawked.
The poking and prodding and conversation continued. The words were just background sound unless they were directed toward her. The aqua light bathed her in a peaceful feeling, and she was oblivious to the passage of time.
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