another trick. This might be my captors toying with me, trying to goad me into fighting back again because then they get to maim me again. As if they needed an excuse. My fingers itch, especially the tip of my pinky that’s no longer there. My missing toe, too. The carvings in my leg that are probably someone’s initials, or the alien equivalent of “Dave Wuz Here.” Not my eyes, though. My eyes never hurt. Probably because they’re gone. Since that awful day that they were taken from me, I’ve relied on my other senses a lot more. I can sense a change in the air when one of the aliens kneels down
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