Yesterday, aliens visited my town. By visiting, I really meant invaded, stealthily, of course,

but an invasion nonetheless. You aren't really a visitor when your primary purpose is to

abduct and experiment upon a land's people, even if you plan to return them to their homes.

Without them ever knowing what happened. I was one such abductee, but unlike the others,

I actually woke up while still aboard the alien ship. I don't know much about them. I

couldn't tell you from what planet or even what galaxy they have, nor can I offer any accurate

evaluation of their technological superiority. I can only say that their tech is superior

to ours. The jury is still out in regard to the cultural sophistication. I'm not sure whether

to classify them as connoisseurs of high cosmic art or barbarians who glorify scenes of

cataclysmic violence. On their ships, throughout every room I went into, were grand depictions

of some monumentous event, a battle, a massacre, in which people of their kind fought some

other hideously alien species. Neither were very similar in morphology to humans, but my

abductors at least seemed to have been born of the same general idea that intelligent beings

required consistent physical harm. The other species within the extra mundane displays of art

were abominable, shifting composites of aquatic and plant life. They appeared to fight with their

various tendrils and tentacles, whereas the abducting species utilized what appeared to be

lightning-spitting tritons. The aliens obsessed with this event led me to believe that a similar

fate awaited Earth. Once they had a complete knowledge of our physiology, they'd begin a campaign

of planetary genocide to believe our cities is nothing more than miles spanning piles of

smoldering rubble. Whether or not this cataclysmic invasion will come to pass is not immediately

relevant to my story, but with mentioning nonetheless. They awoke in the midst of the aliens probing me,

not inappropriately, while chattering to each other in their weird, allulating tongue.

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