Twisting and furling, a black shape glides through the afternoon air. It wafts over the roofs of houses, casting an ever-changing shadow that no one sees. Forty feet up from a bed of sunflowers, it pulses, throwing out three or four tapering tendrils, and with a faint pop the ground falls away again as the wingless thing rises on an intangible current. It swings forward in an arc that drops its indistinct mass straight through someone's upstairs window, knocking away metal screen and thin drapes as if they were mere cobwebs. There is a thump, and then a woman screams.
It only lasts for a moment. Then the screamer closes her mouth and sits down abruptly on a chair just behind her, eyes gazing in confusion at the mess of dark flesh smoothly untangling from the pile of broken plastic slats and bent college textbooks that used to be her nightstand. The creature pop, pop, pops again from some organ near its core, and she hunches over in her chair. Her brow is tense; her abdomen trembles. She slides to the floor, landing hard on her knees. The floor is not carpeted, but she only squeaks as her bones strike the hard wood.
The black shape projects toward her, supported by its rear protuberances. In a moment, shadowy intruder faces blonde cherub from a distance of inches. Two long, soft arms snake past the girl and close on her from either side, and a number of slender hairs extrude from somewhere to stroke and probe at her. The arms encircle her torso, bunching up her thin, gray shirt and tugging it partway out from under the waistband of her form-fitting jeans. They are soft but strong, and their surface is dry. But when it touches the bare surface of the girl's plump arms, a strange color flushes across her skin, at once red, green, and something else not mentionable in human language. The shock beneath it sears through her confusion, and she jerks her weight backward, crying out at a high pitch.
The creature's dark arms roll down her stocky, shapely body like the rim of a condom, and she falls onto her back, pushed sideways by the chair but still held at the waist by her alien companion, whose many lower tentacles are now grasping around her tapering legs. As black skin meets naked white belly, the girl begins to thrash and wail. But her cry soon fades away, replaced by a gentle popping sound. Soon her limbs are still and her eyes have rolled back, a stray tear or two still dripping from them. The girl shakes periodically, but does not resist, as the long, jointed hairs prod her heavy, jutting young bosom, poke under the ends of her short sleeves, slide up her nose. She inches backward on the floor, pushed by a questing thing whose tentacles lift her at the hips and coil over her pelvis.