When Kira awoke from the abyss of her mind, she looked around in fear. The place she had laid her head was now a different place. The room smelled of alcohol and disinfectant. Slowly Kira stood up and walked to the door but a sharp pain in her arm stopped her. Looking down, she saw a needle with a fluid running in it. INTO HER ARM! In a panic Kira quickly stripped herself of all wires, fluid, tape, and fabric, then backed away in fear of the noise that assaulted her sensitive ears.
Within a few seconds a group of humans rushed into the room to stop and stare at the naked girl in front of them. The self-same girl that they had looked over for nearly two years, doing all manner of things to get a reaction now stood shivering in fear of what she didn't understand. Kira was aware of the surprise in the humans so, to make herself understood she spoke her first sentence in the strange language of this new world. " Why was I like that?" her voice was rough and sounded like she had never used it, but she was understood. Suddenly the humans went into action. Surrounding her with blankets, checking her temperature, blood pressure and other such things, or tried to. Kira was frightened so she silently told them to stop and go away and leave her alone. In this new world she could do what would have amounted to child's play on her planet. Sending telepathic messages was her language.
Not understanding what had been done, all but one left. The one turned off the buzzer from the heart monitor and then left with the rest. In the silence Kira contemplated her return to life. She had essentially turned her body off when she pulled into herself. Lowering her heartbeat and blood pressure to the very minimum needed to stay alive. She had turned off her stomach and other such organs that had to do with food so as not to be disturbed by the grumble of hunger or the call of Mother Earth.
Now though, she was hungry and the call of nature was strong, but she saw no food and no commode. So, being careful not to step in the growing puddle of liquid, Kira stepped into the corridor outside of her room. People stared at her as she walked to the nearest person with a white gown on and asked, " Where is the toilet?" The girl pointed down the hall and to the left. " Thank you."
With the memories of the police officers in her mind, Kira was able to use the commode without trouble. The hard thing was to find out where the kitchen was. Then to get out of here.
As it turned out they were serving lunch. Which was a good thing. As she was walking toward the kitchen, Kira noticed that everyone was staring at her with surprise and sometimes amusement. Kira looked into the mind of an older gentleman and saw that her lack of clotheing was inappropriate, so she found a pale blue flannel robe with a tie and put it on. It felt terrible; Kira started to miss her home at the absence of her warm, soft clothes.
The food was good but Kira left her meat where it was. Never even touched it. One man noticed.
He was tall, brown hair highlighted in red. His face was worried and excited at the same time. He watched with a kind of fascination. This girl had been in a coma-like state for over two years, never showing any improvement, yet suddenly she is up and about with no notice what so ever? To him, a doctor of many years, it was a phenomenon to be analyzed. So, he got up and walked toward where she was sitting on the floor and sat down in front of her. "Hello."
"Hello." The way she said it spoke volumes. He already knew that this wasn't her language. That was something.
"What are you doing?" he asked this in a very carefree way, it was just a tradition.
She looked at him with a puzzled expression then waved her hand in front of his face. He jerked back and her expression turned to one of exasperation. "If you cannot use your eyes, that would have been a valid question, but since that is obviously not true why do you ask?"
He was taken aback. The girl spoke like someone with a more than average intelligence. Another thing to add to his list of strange things about the girl. "Okay, good point. What is your name?"
The girl looked puzzled for a minute, just long enough for him to think she could not remember, then comprehension dawned on her face and she answered carefully making sure each sound was noticed. "Kira."