AN- According to my Stats, no one's read anything but the first chapter. Please review, if only to prove my stats page wrong.
This time, when she woke up, she kept her eyes shut. The back of her head ached slightly, but apart from that she was fine. Listening carefully, she could tell she was in a different room to where she'd woken up. The bed underneath her was more worn, and her body rested in the slight cocoon of someone else's body shape.
Hannah opened her eyes and looked around, being careful to move as little as possible. She seemed to be in a small bedroom, with her bed being against the wall furthest from the door. Moving her head, she saw a desk, with the chair occupied by the same purple human-raptor she saw earlier. At least, she thought it was the same alien... She could barely see the thin white markings on his jaw.
"So you're awake." A deep, rumbling voice stated. Startled, she twisted slightly. The other captor leaned against a wall, nonchalant and seemingly uninterested.
In the light, she could see that underneath his white markings, he was a dark brown, like tree-bark or compost.
"I wonder if she can talk?" The other mused. "She hasn't made a sound since she got here."
Hannah turned her head again, glaring at the alien. "There hasn't been much to say." She said, through gritted teeth.
Alien or not, Hannah could recognize laughter when she heard it. "Guess that answers that question. What's your name, humanity?"
"What?" Hannah asked, reflexively.
The dark alien stepped forward. "What's your name?"
Her eyes darted between them. They'd placed themselves at different ends of the room to unsettle her, she deduced. So she couldn't keep them both in her sights at once. Smart, just the kind of tactic her father would have used. In fact, this was distinctly like the day after the first (and last) time she'd come home drunk. Her parents had been much more intimidating, claws or no claws.
Perhaps the use of 'humanity' instead of 'human' was to throw her off. It had, but not in a way that'd help them in an interrogation. Theory dismissed, as her father would say. They thought it was correct. Should she enlighten them?
"I'm Hannah." She answered. "And humanity refers to all humans. I'm just one human." She sent them her best smile, the one that used to get her out of trouble in school. "Just for future reference."
The dark one let out a chuckle. "We'll remember. We're turians, just for future reference."
Her smile turned savage. "I'll remember."
