Dark hair bought me? What would they want me to do? Were they going to eat me or beat me? I felt nauseate

t and the walls looked like large screens. My arms were trembling from being held out so long and

nto the room while the lady wi

med into the air mask and struggled in my bonds. For some reason it seemed like shaving me bar

air framed his face. He raised a dark eyebrow and said something. Long hair jumped up on my platform behind me. I

t a switch and the me on the wall was now just like I was, hair and all. A sigh of relief

ir continued to watch me intermittently. I wasn't really upset when th

metal covering his chest had an intricate design on it. In fact, they all w

from him a man with brown hair and a short beard stroked the other foot as they talked. They were touching me witho

hey looked like they were made of jelly. Again, the urg

by my captors at their level. The men were enormous, the shortest w

s, but I couldn't stop. When the jelly creatures started to engulf my legs, my panicked screaming filled the roo

stand around us. They wish your hair removed in certain places and it is being done. They h

ed up as I moved down until I was laying flat at the level of the lady's tentacle. It felt like I had had too much

pen light and pressed it to my arm. I winced as a slig

" the lanky guy

aired man answered him. "Basin told us of

t is similar to that concoction," the

ng a language I knew was fo

e language of Pateria. Do you understand

d my breast, "You will answer

o what I was told, I saw D

he said rubbing a hand over the mark hers had made. My

you are lucky. Now do you und

ame to stand around me. I realized I was laying down across the platform and t

d the saleswoman. "We wish to know how it works. When the cleaners are done, I

ners. I wondered how many parts she would show him. Would she open up my

my alarm.' I opened my eyes and then shut them tight again. Insid

. You aren't asleep anymore. I wish to look at

g me sleep. I had seen his piercing

r you, Ciara. Should

ho had been laying on the other side of me. I scooted away from both of them and fell off the su

he purple blue horizon. Several large moons could also be seen stretched ou

s my planet suddenly sprouted new moons. I was somewhere different, somewhere ver

rtment of deep blue covers. A large pole ran up the middle of the bed and attached the ceiling. F

other side of the mattress. He s

tied it up," the lanky man

ng down quickly I saw ornate metal cuffs wrapped around my wrists and ankles, but w

broad, bearded man said rising

mounts of thick bronze hair. A fine piece of white linen was wrapped around his waist. From the nu

n the bed with your eyes open, Ciara

too scared to move and shoo

your head like that? Speak to me

e out of

for a moment and then continued. "You are not educated, so I will help you. When

aster," I hissed

te to escape, I didn't notice the long haired man as he stepped in front of me. Fighting wildly,

e had my right arm twisted in a grip so strong I feared the bone woul