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giggled and said, "It's bread. It's from your planet. I thought it would be more comfortable for you to have something familiar to eat."
     
    I had to laugh at myself. "Thank you, I appreciate that."
     
    At a certain point you just have to give in to what is happening around you, so I nibbled at the bread. There was something delightfully commonplace and grounding about eating bread aboard a spaceship with a scaled alien.
     
    "Oh, I'm so rude, I didn't introduce myself. I'm Thearaugqua Iztan Droqrolla."
     
    I tried wrapping my mouth around her name. "That's a lot of name."
     
    She laughed. "My family goes for the long and pretentious. Please, call me Thea."
     
    "Well, for all that my mom is a hippie, she goes for epic names as well. I'm Melisandrea Epona Jordan, but everyone calls me Meli."
     
    "Hi Meli, it's nice to meet you."
     
    Despite the fact that she was a tall, bronze, lizard-like alien, she put me at ease.
     
    "It's nice to meet you too, uhm, you, despite the circumstances. So, I hate to be rude, but why am I on this, whatever this is? Where am I? What are you?"
     
    "With everything that has happened to you, a few questions are far from rude. You are human, I am Madrelir. As for where you are, these are my quarters, on my brother's starship, the Sekkal Grazoaran. You met him already."
     
    I rolled my eyes at her understatement. "Yeah, briefly. When he swooped down on my desert camp like an angry, vengeful god, then drugged me and abducted me."
     
    "Yes, Tlavi is a bit impulsive."
     
    I snorted at that. Then it dawned on me that I wasn’t hearing the liquid hissing Tlavi had made at me. "Wait, how do you know English?"
     
    She shook her head at me and said, "I don't. You are speaking my language. It's part of why Tlavi injected you. It was actually an injection of nanobots. They gave you our language while you slept."
     
    I took a deep breathe. Nanobots. Again, Toto, I was so not in Kansas. "Okay, I guess. I'm going to try to not freak out about being filled with tiny, alien robots who root around in my brain and just ask again, why am I even here?"
     
    Thea finally looked uncomfortable, shifting around in her seat. She wouldn't met my eyes when she said, "I'm sorry, Meli, I really am, but you'll need to talk to my brother about that. I can't tell you, I'm so sorry."
     
    I stood up. "Well then, take me to him." I tried to be matter of fact about it, but I wasn't really looking forward to actually seeing him again. My intensely physical reaction to him scared the hell out of me. And that kiss? Danger zone.
     
    She stood up hastily and nervously wrung her hands. "He's not available right now. But I can help you get ready for meeting with him."
     
    Thea grabbed my hand and drew me toward the curtains behind us. She definitely did not want to talk about her brother or why I was there.
     
    Before I could badger her about it, she drew me into a room that took my breath away. The draperies on the walls stopped around a magnificent tiled pool. It reminded me of all the pictures of decadent tiled Roman pools. A waterfall at one end cascaded into it, filling it.
     
    This must be whatever passed for a bathroom on a space ship. Which made me realize how utterly prosaic it was that I really, really, really needed to pee. And I had no idea if there was a toilet hidden anywhere or if it would work for me. I didn't see anything that resembled what I needed and I really did not want to pee in that magnificent pool.
     
    "Uh, Thea, I don't know how to say this, but while I recognize a pool when I see one, I do not recognize a toilet. And I desperately need to use one."
     
    "Oh yes, of course." She walked over and pressed part of the tiled wall and that section disappeared. She gestured me inside.
     
    I was relieved that something that looked vaguely toilet-like existed on the star ship. It meant they, well, eliminated in some fashion. It was ridiculous, but it made me feel like we had something so basic in