“Uh…? Yes, I am human,” Carlos said carefully. Hesitantly. “Uh, no – no offense, but… why did you lick me?”
He listened to the human talking, and then analyzed him again, he nudged the human’s arm, and smiled again, putting a hand on his shoulder and squeezing it a bit, as if analyzing everything.
“I’m Taneleer Tivan. The collector. And you are?”
Carlos got a little nervous with the touchy-feeling going
on, but since it wasn’t anything in appropriate he let it go. Maybe it was in
his culture…“Um, my name is Carlos Ramon. I… well… Abductee from Earth.”
“Abductee? Uhnm… That’s sad.” He smiled, it had been a while since he last saw a human, so he was curious to see how they had evolved. “Can I continue to analyze you? I would like to buy your body for analysis, of course I will wait for you to die before open your boy and I can pay you a fair amount of credit. ”
Carlos’ eyes widened and he just stared at the other man. “Um…?
No, I… I’m not comfortable with that,” he said. “I mean, sure, I can sate some
of your curiosity with medical tests while I’m alive, but… I’m afraid my body is off-limits after death. I’d…
really rather die on Earth, if I can even get back there.”
The Perfect Scientist 