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 polka dotted light.
The creature she had met outside was beside her, along with two other similar-looking beings, all peering at her with those ivory eyes. They were anxiously 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.
"Frelomugag ibakon," one said. "Pabevudoo," another replied. They violently raised up two strange metallic devices above her front tooth, plunged the tips of them in, and removed it. They liquified the front tooth, then put it in an ancient crimson container that was hovering beside them. They then did the same with her Adam's apple, and her arm. It all seemed very strange, mostly because she was aware she should be feeling very befuddled, but actually was simply observing.
The beings continued their direct conversation, while she lay there, with the curious thought that she probably shouldn't try to get up while her front tooth, Adam's apple, 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. "Bah," she thought to herself, "I guess that's that."
The other aliens continued conversing and prodding what was left of her body. "Mecasicei," one harangued. "Kycoowen," another responded.
"Cypazopa?" she said abruptly, surprising herself — and, evidently, everyone.
The room was suddenly full of animated alien conversation. "Jejeral?" "Nacivymu bukacote todycane." "Tybooyooci." "Mubyyen!"
The most vacuous of the aliens then moved again to her side. "I hope we have not inconvenienced you," it cajoled, in perfect robotic English. "We come in peace. We will return you to your Dodge Dart when we are finished."
She actually felt pretty inconvenienced, insofar as someone without feeling could feel. "Noogihici," she imitated. "May I have my front tooth back? And my Adam's apple 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 killed. We will return them shortly."
"That's good to know," she replied, with only a little irony. "I am waiting crazily."
"Thank you for your cooperation."
"Yeah, well, I'll just lie here and cooperate until I get my Adam's apple back," she analyzed.
The poking and prodding and conversation continued. The words were just background sound unless they were directed toward her. The polka dotted light bathed her in a peaceful feeling, and she was oblivious to the passage of time.
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