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stunned because she doesn’t give the
being anymore trouble as he connects her cuffs to Megan’s other
chain.
     
    The lizard-man standing
near Gayle hisses a loud noise and then starts tugging Gayle
forward and through the door. Since we are all chained together, we
all have to go. The lizard-man near me nudges me forward and then
follows closely behind me. I shiver as I smell his foul breath. My
stomach churns. I will my last meal to stay in place.
     
    When Megan stumbles, I
trip. The being behind me shoves me. I long to glare at him but
know that could cause him to kill me. Not that I’m sure life is
going to be worth living much longer anyway. My natural instinct to
live drives me forward.
     
    Covertly, I look around.
We are in a corridor that hasn’t had a good sweeping in a long
time. Maybe never. We are quickly guided to a massive door. I blink
when it opens revealing a bright planet. I can’t look up to see
what the sun looks like because my eyes hurt just from the rays
coming down.
     
    “ My eyes hurt,” Megan
complains.
     
    “ Do you really think they
care?” Gayle asks without turning around to look at
Megan.
     
    “ No, I was just expressing
what I’m feeling. Is that so bad?” Megan shoots back.
     
    “ Just shut up,” Miss Nasty
grouches.
     
    “ You don’t have to be so
mean.” Megan looks back at me. “Does she?”
     
    I shake my head in silent
support of Megan. My instincts are telling me to not make a scene.
The other female nods at me and then turns back around to watch her
footing.
     
    A sharp pain shoots through
my foot causing me to limp a few steps. I look back and see that
I’d stepped on some type of sharp rock. Watch your footing, Hallie Mead , I
reproach myself. Being barefoot on this planet poses new
challenges.
     
    I sidestep the next sharp
rock and look for more with renewed determination. Bloody feet
could prove deadly if some alien infection enters my body through
an open wound. That thought keeps me looking at the ground instead
of around at the planet.
     
    The walk isn’t long. I
look up when we stop and realize we are being watched by a lot of
different beings. Once again, fear lodges in my chest. I hadn’t
even realized the emotion had left me while I was carefully
watching were I placed my feet. With my arms crossed, as much as my
chain allows, my hands automatically start rubbing circles against
my forearms. The feeling is comforting. I calm down a
little.
     
    That small state of forced
peace is broken when the lizard-men with us start unhooking us. The
lead alien guides Gayle and Megan into the dirty tannish building
we have been standing outside of. The one near me holds my chain
and leads me inside. It takes my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim
lighting.
     
    When my sight clears, I
take a step back and bump into a being entering the building behind
me. My captor hisses a warning and glares at me. He pulls me deeper
into the room. I covertly glance around and see hundreds of beings
milling around the large room. My heart feels like it’s going to
explode when my captor roughly leads me to a raised
platform.
     
    “ Please don’t let this be
what I think it is,” I whisper. With all of the noise in here, I
could have shouted the words and not been heard. My stomach twists
painfully with each step I take toward the platform.
     
    When Megan gets close to
the platform, she freaks out and starts yelling and hitting her
captor. He hisses at her and she tugs hard on her chain. The
hysterical woman kicks out at lizard-man.
     
    His yellow eyes narrow.
Then to my horror, he steps back and aims a gun at Megan. A second
later an electrical bolt shoots from the weapon and right into
Megan’s chest. Her whole body shakes, she falls to the ground
unconscious, and then pee dampens the crotch of her
pants.
     
    Several shouts come from
the audience as Megan is grabbed by the arm and dragged up the
steps. Gayle is pulled along as well. Megan’s body is left by