Elle slowly blinked her eyes, straining in the dim light to see a dark shape looming above her. Where in the world was she? It didn't feel like her bedroom.
"Ah! You're awake! Excellent!" Zealtor exclaimed as he leaned down and peered into Elle's face with a large smile. "So, how are you feeling?"
Elle let out a large sigh at the sight of that grin as the memory of what happened came rushing back She was in a tent in California surrounded by aliens and facing possible starvation. She shut her eyes with a load moan. She could not face this now. Maybe if she closed her eyes and went to sleep, she would wake up and find out that it was all a dream.
"Oh, no! Don't go to sleep! That won't do at all!" Zealtor said as he reached out and shook her a bit. "I wonder if you hit your head when you fainted? Maybe I should just run over to my tent and get a few supplies."
"No supplies! You'll remove her brain!" X called as he came into Elle's section of the tent, bending down to fit in and carrying several bags of peanuts in his hands. "It's tiny as all human brains are. She can't afford to loose it!"
"I think I've already lost my mind," Elle moaned as she opened her eyes again. Yep. The aliens were still there.
"But she might have hit her head," Zealtor explained to X, ignoring Elle completely. "It won't take me but a minute to run over and get a few things to..."
"Hit her head?" X muttered as he knelt down beside Elle and reached out, raising her head a bit so he could inspect the back for any possible wounds. Humans were just so fragile, yet another problem with the species as a whole. "Nothing looks wrong."
"But she keeps passing out and...."
"I wasn't passing out! I was closing my eyes and hoping when I opened them, this would all be a dream!" Elle cried as she glared at them. How could they just talk about her like she wasn't there.
"I think she's fine. Temper's back, anyway," X muttered as he held out a bad of peanuts. "Here. I found food for us."
"Peanuts?" Elle murmured as she took the bag in shock. She was going to have to live on a bag of peanuts?
"The worms stoled them from the plane," X explained. "Eat up. There's more where that came from. Over a hundred bags more."
Elle slowly pulled herself into a sitting position and opened the bag, pulling out a peanut and placing it in her mouth, slowly chewing as she thought. What had she ever done to deserve her life ending up like this.