Jīvitaya jolts out of her mind, finally free of the psychic cage. She panics when she feels something slightly heavy on top of her. She claws upwards, throwing the thing off of her. She emerges into the light and blinks. She was fighting with a comforter. She sighs in relief and slides her legs out from under the blanket and concentrates on stopping their trembling. Her hand drifts up to her neck to touch the chain of her pendant. She can't feel it and runs her hand over her neck frantically, searching for the chain. Her fingers touch it and she sighs in relief. Her fingers slide down to the small bottle dangling at the end of the golden chain. The shimmering blue powder inside shifts and carries the piece of blue shell around the bottle as she turns it in her hands. She gently lowers it back to its place on her chest.
Then she starts to examine her wrist. The tendril design and the chip are still there and perfectly unharmed. Jīvitaya taps the chip with a finger and it spits out some molecules to materialize a tablet. The tablet forms in her hand and she gets up to explore the room. White walls, a bed with white bedding, a single window, and a door. She walks over to the window, pulls the white curtains aside, and shrieks. Behind the curtains and the glass is empty space. Through the side of the window, you can see planet Earth. Jīvitaya steps away from the window and moves towards the door. She taps away at the tablet and a steel-gray tendril comes out and slides beneath the door.
Clicking noises and beeps come from the other side of the door before it opens with a quiet hiss. Jīvitaya retracts the tendril before stepping out the door and down the hallway. She taps on the tablet again and it scans the ship before pulling up a map that shows her location. She looks at it briefly before she walks down the long hallway of the ship towards the Pod-Deck. She steps past an airlock door in the hallway and a loud siren-type beeping comes from the door. Two white-haired males rush out of a room next to the airlock and grab her, dragging her back towards her room. She kicks at them but they just clutch her harder. In her struggle, she drops her tablet and it is quickly crushed beneath the hard black boots of the two alien men. The crushed fragments dissolve back into molecules once the males have carried her a certain distance away from it and stream back into the chip on her wrist to be stored once more until they are needed again. The males finally reach her room, but instead of tossing her inside and locking the door once more, they carry Jīvitaya right past it and into a room farther down the hallway.
The room is bright, bright enough that it takes Jīvitaya a minute for her eyes to adjust past just seeing blurs. During the time that she is distracted by her watering eyes, the aliens continue carrying her forward into the room. In the center of the room is a metal table, almost identical to a hospital surgical table. She sees the table and starts fighting with renewed vigor to escape her captors. But it is to no avail. With effort, they pin her thrashing limbs down to the table and strap them in one by one. Despite the bands now restraining her, Jīvitaya struggles to prevent them from doing anything, but it has no effect. One of the males turns around and grabs something from another, smaller table. He hands it to the other male, who moves closer to her.
The male grins evilly and holds up a small and crystal clear container. Inside are two tiny and grub-like white worms. The other male returns to her side and tightens her restraints to the point where absolutely no movement could be possible before adding additional restraints to hold down her head, middle, and knees. The male with the worms tilts the container and the two worms slide out onto her bare arm. One worm moves over her arm and across her stomach to reach the other arm. It moves at an agonizingly slow pace. It reaches her forearm at the same time the other one reaches the same point on her other arm and in unison, the two jump up before diving down at her arms. Her arms feel like cold, soothing ice for a moment before white-hot pain lances through her entire body. The pain goes on and on endlessly, and the aliens just watch her cry out in pain. Soon she starts convulsing, as the agony reaches a point higher than before. Jīvitaya screams again before passing out.
An image appears in her unconscious mind of bright, sparkling green eyes.
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Hello! Sorry it's so short.What do you think will happen next? Do you have any suggestions for me? Was any of that surprising? Why do you think she lived that long?Whose eyes did she see? What do you think those worms were? Tell me your thoughts!
Happy reading and I'll see you all next time!
~Goddess Of Fate, signing out
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Stars Of Memory
Science FictionJīvitaya Rai Naji is just an average human girl. Orphaned, but nothing stranger than that. She was one of the few witnesses to the first alien invasion on Earth. One day, many years later, she catches sight of one of them following her. She wonders...
