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But it was enough.
“Zzz-ik,” he said.
I frowned.
I mustn’t have heard him correctly.
I pulled back, a smile on my face.
I didn’t care which country he came from, what nationality he was, only that he had done what so many wouldn’t, and helped me. “What was that?”
“Zzz-ik,” he repeated.
“Sorry,” I said, shaking my head. “I don’t know—”
My heart stopped for the second time that night.
My fingers were pressed to his chest — his exposed chest — and I felt the odd coarse scales of his skin.
Yes, scales.
I had seen enough nature documentaries to know scales when I saw them.
They were rough and haggard, nothing like the smooth scales of a snake.
And when he stepped into the light, his cat-like slitted eyes glared down at me.
This thing, this creature… was not human.
He snapped a hand over my forearm, looked up, and said:
“Zzz-ik.”
A bright flash of light consumed me, filling my eyes and body from the inside out.
That was how I came to be abducted.
And my luck only got worse from there.
* * *
The sensations that washed over me first were of smooth, cold metal against my cheek.
My eyes flickered open, and the intense brightness temporarily blinded me.
Adjusting, I squinted and lifted myself off the ground, trying to recall the events that had brought me here.
The room smelled sterile, like a combination of antiseptic and something more foreign, almost sweet.
It reminded me of those expensive lavender candles I once bought on Earth, only with a hint of blueberries.
The hum of machinery, soft and distant, was oddly comforting.
I sat up and touched the smooth floor with my bare feet, feeling the slight electric pulse underneath.
The floor was cool, but not unpleasantly so.
My fingers played with the thin fabric I was draped in — pale blue, almost translucent.
