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8/27/22 Stars Among Men

8/27/22 - Stars Among Men

"Now mortal! Feast your eyes on our creation! Our control over your light, your stars, your very being."

Inside the golden dome, I looked up, blinding myself with the light shining through the top, brighter than what our sun gives us. Golden beams and arches swung in circles, telling stories that I didn't understand, but apparently these bozos did.

"Yeah, super impressive, I love it. Tell me, could those all encompassing powers of yours pay my bills for me?"
The entire crowd before us let out a gasp. "I'm sorry," the man before me spluttered. I mean, I said he was a man, but apparently he wasn't. Which made no sense to me. If I could opt between flesh I could poke and prod at all day and looking like a giant glowing globe, I'd totally give up looking human. If he didn't want me to mistake him for a human, he shouldn't have been looking like one in the first place.

"I don't think you understand the position you are in, foolish girl." He said the last part with such malice I couldn't hold back the snort in the back of my throat. It came out as more of a choked raspberry than anything, but it was still noticeable enough for the guy's eyes to literally start catching on fire.

"You're right man, but respectfully, it's cause I was literally just commuting to work and you slurped me from the fucking sky."
"Who is she? She's showing no fear," there was a harsh whisper to my left, and I saw a guy that looked to be just a couple years younger than me whispering into the ear of some really old fucking dude that was looking at me with the blankest expression I've ever seen in any senile old person in my life.

"I'm not scared cause I don't even know where I am. What the fuck am I doing here? I just wanted to be able to get home and feed my dog tonight."
"Mortal! You are here because-"

There was a pounding that echoed through the entire dome, and silence rippled across the crowd of people. It happened again. Then again. Suddenly, a grand set of doors burst wide open, and I could see black uniforms, and clear shields. They were all carrying guns, and despite the fact I'm sure none of these people could actually die via bullet, they all parted like the red sea until there was an entire swat unit circling me. Shouting for everyone to stay back. The thought? Appreciated. But what the fuck was happening right now.

"Could y'all get me out of here, I think my boss might fire me if I'm a no show today." No response. I pursed my lips and shifted around uncomfortably in the bright, thick, gold rope that was starting to give me intense rope burn. "Good talk you guys, good talk."

"Jetran!" Came a voice. It was authoritative, but nothing like the voices that had been shouting out me for the last 2 hours in different variations of latin, english, and some intergalactic language they thought to try before they settled on English.

"Dude, I'm just finding out your name? You've been screaming at me for 2 hours, that would have been at least nice to know."

"SILENCE," He boomed.

"Damn, sorry I said anything," I said, rolling my eyes. I could see one of the swat members looking at me with confusion all over his face and I flashed him a big smile before he turned around.

"Jetran, how the hell did they get in here," the old man finally said, throwing his hands up.

"Ok, I can't be the only one that was not aware he sounded like that."

"SHUT UP!" The sound of at least 4 people shouting it at me thundered along the walls. "Jesus christ, ok!"

I rested my chin on the rope and watched the sexiest many I've ever laid my eyes on climb the stairs and square up to the crazy god due who'd been screaming at me. Jetran. Very French. Cool.

"I'm here to take the girl and leave. Please, don't cause a bigger scene."

"No! We have her for a reason."

"What the hell would you need this girl for? She's not in any of our databases, she's ordinary."

"Yeah, why do you have me here?" The really hot swat guy put his hand up to silence me, and I shut up immediately.

"Look, we can talk about this later, right now, we can't just let you take mortals and accuse them of stealing your stars."

What?

"We need to be sure."

"Yeah, well, we can take her back and make absolutely sure ok? But you can't keep her here, there will be too many people complaining of alien abduction and that looks super bad on government records."

"We haven't even searched her yet!" Hot swat man pinched his nose with his fingers. Everyone listened in uneasy silence. "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
The entire crowd gasped again, and I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, that's what I've been asking this whole time."

"Claire, I need you to shut the fuck up for 2 seconds, please."

"How do you know my name?"
"Oh my god."