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    She showed me a button next to the toilet and said, "Just press this for cleansing when you are done."
     
    I guess they had moved past toilet paper.
     
    She stepped out and the wall reappeared, giving me privacy. I was alone. I used the bathroom, but sat there for a long minute just staring at the button. Would it…I mean…how did I know they had the same or at least similar genitalia?
     
    I considered just dripping dry, but I braced myself and hit the button. I went to hit it again, but realized that actually, I was clean and dry. Like magic. Just…done. How pleasant. Definitely a point in favor of the lizard people.
     
    I put myself to rights and walked over to the door, realizing I had no idea how to open it. As I stood there, a single tile pulsed so I reached over and pushed it. Success! The door disappeared and I walked back into the room.
     
    The pool had finished filling and steam rose off the inviting surface. In the far corner of the room, water fell like a heavy rain from the ceiling. Thea stepped back in at that moment, carrying a flowing garment.
     
    She set it on the bench, then gestured at the rainfall corner. "There are various cleansing products by the shower, for washing before you soak. The gown is for you, so I can clean your garments."
     
    Considering the look on her face as she regarded my clothing, I figured I was never going to see them again. I felt grungy enough that I almost didn't care. Almost.
     
    "Yes, well, since I don't know where I am, why I am here or how long I will be here, I will want to keep my clothes."
     
    Thea nodded and murmured something noncommittal at me, before fleeing the room.
     
    I did feel absolutely disgusting, so stripping out of my filthy clothes felt pretty amazing. I walked into the crazy rain/waterfall shower. It was absolutely glorious. I could learn to live like this. It dampened my spirits when I realized I might have to live like this. I was a well-treated prisoner, but still not free.
     
    And the various products Thea mentioned? I cannot describe them. Thank God there were pictures on the tiles above the taps, because apparently the nanobots did not give me the ability to read the squiggly alien script. But my hair has never felt more like silk.
     
    And the scents? Out of this world. I suppose literally.
     
    I lost track of time after I slipped into the entirely too-big-to-be-a-bathtub pool and tried to relax. If I was going to be an alien abductee and whisked billions of miles from home, I could at least enjoy the good bits. And this soak was an extraordinarily good bit.
     
    Of course, thinking about being so far from home made me think of my Mom. Whatever fights we'd had in the past, the thought of never seeing her again hit me right in the gut.
     
    If all this wasn't an insane hallucination and was really happening, I could literally be billions of miles away from my family. If that was true, then I would have no way of ever letting my mother know what had happened. I would be one more missing person, and only my mother would remember me.
     
    Holy hell, as far as my mother knew, I’d flitted off again, again , and disappeared into the desert. They would find my car and maybe the two idiots who attacked me. But the men would never come forward and admit what had happened.
     
    There would only be a recently fired shotgun, a campsite, and my car. And my dash cam! I’d completely forgotten that it had been running. Of course, if television taught me anything, it was that the footage was probably already mysteriously missing. Either a government agency bound to secrecy or alien technology helping keep them under wraps.
     
    I hoped the men would be forced to say something, so even if I never made it back to earth, Mom could at least get some closure. To know I didn't abandon her, that I would come back if I could.
     
    Thinking about never seeing her again, combined with being clean and sitting in the tub, and I burst into tears. I