The abduction
I'm driving home from work. It's been a long-ass day at the office; my boss has had me working on some very involved problem for the last three weeks, and I'm not sure solving it will help anyone at all. Ugh, whatever, he's the boss. I try to put work out of my head.
βIt's dark already. I'm driving along a blank stretch of highway, and it occurs to me that there are no other cars in sight. That's weird; I've never seen it so deserted at this time of night. I start to feel just a little bit creeped out. My skin is prickly, and my stomach is sort of sloshing around. Then, suddenly, all the street lights and my headlights go out at once, like fucking Dumbledore clicked his put-outer or something! The road ahead of me is plunged into darkness, and I can't see anything!
"Shit!" I careen over to the side of the road. Not sure what the hell I'm supposed to do now, but there's no way I can keep driving into a black void at 70 miles per hour. I hit the light on the ceiling of my car; nothing happens. I take out my phone, and it's fucking dead! Even though I swear it was like half-charged when I left work. Fuckity fuck!
For several moments, I just stare blankly into the darkness. I'm miles from anywhere, with no lights and no phone. The darkness feels bizarre to me. Is it always this pitch-black at night? Shouldn't there be some stars or light pollution or something? I get out of my car to stare up at the sky. I look up, up, up...nada. Nothing. Nothing but a great big black void. Then I feel something move in the darkness above me, something huge as the sky and absolutely silent. I feel a lurch of horror in my midsection, and blind panic buzzing in my mind, and then--
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I wake up on a round bed that seems to be sitting on some kind of platform. I'm flat on my back, arms and legs spread wide like I'm making a snow angel. I am completely naked.
Now, this wouldn't bother me, necessarily--the duvet I'm laying on is very comfortable, and the temperature feels balmy and warm. But the thing is, I'm not alone. I look around me and gasp: there are at least 12 creatures standing around the bed staring at me intently.
βThe creatures should be terrifying. They are a light pink, sort of fleshy color, and they look rather squishy, like they're made of jello wrapped in cellophane. They have three eyes each, round and liquid black, set into their faces. They look like mushy pink ghosts; I don't see any mouths or limbs at all.
Like I said, they should be terrifying...but I find that I am strangely calm. I mean, I'm slowly realizing that these things probably alien-abducted me, and I very well may be on my way to a slow, horrific death. But looking into their little pink faces, with their round black eyes, I find that, inexplicably, I trust them. I don't think they'll hurt me.
βI try to sit up, but I'm sort of plastered flat to the bed. Not with ropes or anything; it feels more like I'm a magnet, and the bed is the refrigerator. I decide to try speaking to these creatures.
β"Uh, hi. Hello. Where am I? What's going on?"
One of the creatures moves forward and a little appendage, about the size of a pinky finger, sprouts from the top of its pink head. The appendage glows with a soft, warm light that blinks in a complicated pattern. The creature is looking at me expectantly. I'm lost. I can only shake my head helplessly. The other aliens all sprout similar appendages, and they start blinking with their silly little teletubby lights back and forth to each other.
Apparently, they use the lights as some sort of alien morse code. Delightful, but I am completely lost--there's no hope I'll understand what they're saying. And it doesn't seem like the aliens can understand me either. So I decide to just lie back and trust that these odd little creatures are not going to kill me. They look so harmless. What could they even do? Blink me to death with their head-finger-lights? Hopefully they'll just observe me for a little bit and then put me safely back on earth. I sigh, ready for whatever comes next.
The seduction.