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 jade light.
The creature she had met outside was beside her, along with six other similar-looking beings, all peering at her with those grey eyes. They were sorrowfully 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.
"Gromugagod idoodod," one said. "Calajoly," another replied. They blankly raised up two strange metallic devices above her tail, plunged the tips of them in, and removed it. They mended the tail, then put it in a primitive turquoise container that was hovering beside them. They then did the same with her vein, and her abdomen. It all seemed very strange, mostly because she was aware she should be feeling very bamboozled, but actually was simply observing.
The beings continued their suave conversation, while she lay there, with the curious thought that she probably shouldn't try to get up while her tail, vein, and abdomen 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. "Ahh," she thought to herself, "I guess that's that."
The other aliens continued conversing and prodding what was left of her body. "Bibuwydya," one spewed. "Potooyyt," another responded.
"Doojooyicy?" she said abruptly, surprising herself — and, evidently, everyone.
The room was suddenly full of animated alien conversation. "Bagohig?" "Nijehooko pykajyja joodygooky." "Nytoosoka." "Lojesij!"
The most prissy of the aliens then moved lovingly to her side. "I hope we have not inconvenienced you," it trumpeted, in perfect robotic English. "We come in peace. We will return you to your perambulator when we are finished."
She actually felt pretty inconvenienced, insofar as someone without feeling could feel. "Becoovyjoo," she uttered. "May I have my tail back? And my vein and abdomen?"
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 slashed. We will return them shortly."
"That's good to know," she replied, with only a little irony. "I am waiting wryly."
"Thank you for your cooperation."
"Yeah, well, I'll just lie here and cooperate until I get my vein back," she preached.
The poking and prodding and conversation continued. The words were just background sound unless they were directed toward her. The jade light bathed her in a peaceful feeling, and she was oblivious to the passage of time.
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