“Welcome to my office,” – Ji’esala was a little frustrated that she  didn’t know why Grerbe’s memo had asked for a meeting there, but the  appearance of their current human subject narrowed down the options –  “not that I’m here too often.” The room’s decorations looked very  much ripped from an episode of star trek,… Continue reading

Ken’di was the only one that actually knew how to properly handle her  load – as sleep pod transport had been her job once. Then again, Bridit  and Baedar were not the most coordinated pair, lugging their pot along. At least they didn’t chatter. No room for worry. Just get Alice to the Doctor.The  winding… Continue reading

Usually, the halls of the ship were brightly lit. Now they were dim,  as if night had finally come to the station. People were staying home…  or, the goo aliens were only out of their apartments as much as their  shifts required. Asteroid mining operations had been temporarily  suspended – not that Alice knew any… Continue reading

Alice’s second tour of the ship, with Dokon, had gotten her a lot  more considered looks – but not many more acquaintances. And certainly  nothing that looked like an office full of programmers. So it was  odd, though not completely unexpected, that She and Ken’di made the  short trip to the inner ring. The atmosphere… Continue reading

“It… It will be a short day,” Lainyng looked like she hadn’t slept.  In a week. “We’ll just go over the baseline tests, and then you’re free  to relax.” Only half the staff scientist that usually worked in  the Direct Human Studies lab had shown up that morning. Or what counted  as a morning in… Continue reading

Is it better to say that nights passed? Or Days?Alice allowed the testing schedule to resume. Slowly, it seemed, the physical tests changed. Things not meant for humans.Patcht’s psychological tests seemed about the same, though. Word association, scenario responses. Alice always got the impression she was a little disappointed by the responses. Though… that may… Continue reading

The Direct Human Studies group seemed to have plenty to do even as  Alice refused to come out of her room – every time one of the scientist  proposed otherwise, Lainyng loudly denied. This was a reasonable reaction. It  seemed a little showy, but despite how Counsellor Grerbe had treated  her earlier – she appreciated… Continue reading

They would talk. The scientists that Alice Jenkins found herself surrounded by – obvious psychological tests. Physical tests – some seemed designed for a human body, which defiantly wasn’t what the pink goo that  now constituted her form was.She was given her own room –  and was assured it was spacious, by spaceship standards. It… Continue reading

Alice stared at her ceiling. It was weird. She felt nude now, even under her bed sheets.She  had tried to “shop” – if it could be really called that, with no money  to exchange, no credit cards to swipe – for a water bottle. But nobody  seemed to quite get the concept – or though… Continue reading

“It’s… It smells right,” Alice brought her face close to the  foot-sized lump, still warm from being fired, inspecting it for  imperfections, cracks, burns – “Is this… your first try?” “Hardly.  This version 8. We have worked on it for year – two year … Asteroid  have not have nearly the ordering planetary sediment does.”… Continue reading