Authors Note: This is based off a really weird dream I had. Now if only it'd come true…
They Came
They came.
No dramatic entrance, just pulled up and parked. Or, hovered actually. Silently, calmly, as if they'd planned it several times over. One second the beach was empty, the next they were there. Waiting.
They came.
And they called.
All over the world people felt the tug. Their call was like an invisible beacon, drawing us to them. Those of us who knew ran towards the call, others were more reluctant. But eventually all who were called came.
They called.
And we came.
By any means necessary, some even by foot. Rich, poor, healthy, sick, it didn't matter. We looked at each other, and we knew. We knew we were the same, no matter our physical differences, we recognized each other as our own "kind". What our kind was…well…. that was why we came.
Slowly, only a few at first, then more, we arrived. They let us in without question, quietly stepping aside for creatures so much smaller than they.
I was among them.
I was one of the few that knew, that had found out for myself what others had forgotten. I and others had come together, seeking comfort in acknowledgement that we were not the only ones. It didn't make it any less intimidating to finally be walking among them. Right now though, I was strangely emotionless, just another body moving down the corridor.
It was strange, one moment I was walking, the next I was in a room I did not recognize, surrounded by machinery I did not recognize, and being led to an odd human-sized…. thing. It wasn't a bed, nor a pod…or anything humanly describable. It was a place to put a human…or that's what I guessed when they had me climb inside.
Again, the loss of time. One moment I had closed my eyes, the next I'd opened them only to find myself in a completely different room, surrounded by completely different machinery. I sat up, elated to be returned to my true body, and have every scattered memory back in place, whole. I stood and stretched, finally free of that silly old body of mine, and turned when the door swished open.
He smiled at me.
"Welcome home."