Singing the new hit, just heard in the hit parade, Julia came out of the shower, and wiping with a huge, wet towel smelling with flowers after using shampoo, her long, brown hair, slowly began to pace the room. Worked on the table her laptop connected to the Internet. Softly and cozy was lighting the table lamp. Tonight Julia was alone in the dorm room. Her girlfriend Kate went home. It was good for her; Kate lived in the village, on the outskirts of Kyiv. She could afford herself such a luxury for students as to go to her home on every weekend. Drink tasty water from the well. Drink delicious homemade milk from a warm, big, lively, though not always pleasant smelling cow.
Julia was also a native of Kiev region, but preferred to spend the weekend in a hostel. And the cow or the well she hasn’t at home. She has got a common apartment. Julia was a freshman of the KPI. It’s well known not only in the Ukraine but also abroad very popular among the students institution. It was hard but at the same time very interesting and useful to study at the KPI. First-year students of the KPI had their lectures even on Saturdays, so there was not much time for time for riding home.
Today was Friday. Tomorrow will be Saturday. Julia had to prepare for tests on geometry. It was quite unknown “beast” for students just out of school. But Julia, guided by an old and effective rule: “The eyes fears, but the hands are doing” a little cope with the hostile geometry, and even received praise from the lips of professor.
Continuing to pace the room, wiping her hair with the towel Julia suddenly felt that there is someone in the room. She wasn’t along any more. There was someone else, someone strange. At her heart crept fear. It was horrible and weird fear. Forcing herself to keep singing, throwing wet hair on the face, she took a few steps around the room. Strange feeling did not leave her.
In the room clearly was felt someone's presence. Julia opened her eyes, and through the strands of wet hair looked around the room. Her hair began to move from the scope of its horror. She shuddered, recoiled against the wall. Right in front of the door stood a strange, if not ugly creature. Above-average height, thin build, with dark skin and empty as thought Julia face. In the sense that on the face of the creature had no eyes, no mouth or nose.
‘What a heck!’ Julia suddenly exclaimed angrily. ‘What a primitive jokes. Who brought that dummy here? Well, I'll show you! It’s not my job to clear after you!’ She stepped to the imaginary dummy.
Dummy came alive. On a dark face had appeared the two broken cracks. One lit with crimson light the other with blue. Lena Firsova, an employee of the laboratory of SSU immediately would recognize in the “dummy”, resurrected and then escaped dead bode from the lab.
Julia opened her mouth to scream, but calls for help were not uttered. She could not scream. Her voice did not obey her. She stared at the creature with her wide opened eye. The creature also seemed was carefully looking over the girl. Julia slowly began to retreat. But the dorm’s rooms were tiny, taking a few steps, she put her back into a small table by the window, where she and her roommate did their home works and prepared to the lectures. Without taking her eyes, Julia looked at the ugly creature. Time seemed to stand still. The girl had got a strange feeling. As if she sleeps with his eyes open and sees a bad dream, or somehow she got inside of some a computer game. But the most importantly was that all this was happening not to her, but with someone else. She shook her head. O the face, shoulders, scattered strands of wet hair. Obsession did not disappear. The creature still obscure her way out. Julia got angry. Groped standing on a table behind her back her favorite cup, and with the power thrown it in the creature. Flying almost the entire distance, the cup for a moment stood still at the level of the creature’s face then quickly melted and with stringy drops fell on the floor. Mat puffed. Julia looked in shock what has become with her cup.
“My God! What's wrong with me? Ill? Losing my mind? Or maybe I was poisoned with yoghurt or sausage? Maybe it’s all hallucination?” Feeling how her body covered with treacherous weakness, Julia began frantically fumbling with her hand on the table, hoping to find her cell phone. She was going to call her roommate Kate and talk to her. Turn your back on a mannequin or her hallucinations she was solved.
The creature seems to have realized that she was going to do. One fingered hand of the creature had been lifted up in the air. The single finger decomposed like a fan in the four fingers. Between the second and third finger has appeared the image of a young guy. Julia peered at it and almost got fainted. She was ready for anything but not for this! She didn’t expect to see it! Incredible! Impossible! At her from the image between the fingers of the stranger was looking Max, her cousin!
‘Max!’ She exclaimed, forgetting about the phone and her intention to call Kate. ‘But how? In what way? Who are you? Who are you? You alive? I thought you’re a mannequin or a hallucination.’ Julia was so stunned with all what happened that forgot about everything.
On the face of creature slightly below two luminous cracks, stood out one more curved, but larger.
‘Karum ra karen?’ Creature asked in a voice that Julia's back crawl, and the legs seemed rooted to the floor.
Julia shook her head. She did not understand anything.
‘Karum ra karen?’ Creature repeated its question.
And then it dawned on Julia. Creature was asking about Max. It was looking for him! And it seems that the intentions of the creatures were not the friendliest. Julia suddenly swept with anger. So that's why her beloved brother Maksimushka does not answer her calls. So because of whom he does not appear in the web. They intimidate him. He hid. And they are now looking for him. Julia when she understood it didn’t care any more who it was before her: dummy, a toy or a bad fake. She wanted to reach those who were behind it all. She will bring them to clean water and know what they did with Max.
‘Karum ra karen?’ Creature’s voice sounded in the third time.
‘You need Max? Yes? So, you should know…I do not know where my brother is. But if I knew I would not tell you. Clear? Hey, you freaks, where is your camera? I can not see you, but I'm sure you see me and hear quite well. So listen to me very attentively and memorize each my words. If something bad happens to my brother, my Uncle Nicholas be sure will find you and make of you a sexless mannequin ...’ ‘Julia did not finish. She with surprise felt that with her was going on something incomprehensible. She looked down and cried out involuntarily. Her feet were hovering a few inches above the floor. Some invisible force lifted her into the air, turned and pressed her back against the wall. Julia felt with her palm a roughness of recently pasted wallpapers.
‘Karum ra karen?’ Creature repeated his question for the fourth time.
Julia just shook her head. Nothing she will tell them. And Uncle Nicholas would come and show them ... Unknown force pressed Julia to the wall. Julia has never been in a centrifuge. Never fly in space. But if she had the chance, she would have realized how many times increased the gravity, pinning her to the wall. Chest had been just pulled with an invisible hoop. It became difficult to breathe. Julia suddenly clearly understood that for unknown creature it was easy to crush her like a mosquito. From left nostril of girl appeared red blood. A few drops fell on the floor. Julia was really scared. She lost her consciousness.

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Julia came back to her senses suddenly, as if she had been switched on was included. She opened her eyes. Heart was beating fast in her chest. The room in which she found herself was completely strange to her. A few seconds later she mindlessly staring straight ahead, then began to look around. The situation did not at all clear. The room was strange, unknown and odd. She was enveloped with the twilight, which was lit by the invisible light’s source. Julia strained her eyesight. Peered. She stood on the translucent dais of black color. At the bottom, under her bare feet were floating myriads of glittering tiny twinkles of light. It seemed that she still hovered over it. The walls, floor, ceiling, everything was black. But these were not the walls, to which people are accustomed to in their lives. Black is not due to lack of ambient light. No. Walls which were surrounding Julia, seemed to her were very light, mobile, translucent, and she suspected multifunctional. That is, they can change, if necessary, its purpose, structure and other parameters. Floor, as the walls also had profound luminescence. Within the walls if one strain its vision, spread over a pale glow. Julia continued to hover over the abyss strewn with the myriads of distant lights.
But she was thinking not long about the unknown to her structure of the walls. Straight ahead, a few steps away, Julia noticed shade with vague, moving shadows. Thought about something, she quickly looked around herself. Thank God! Bathrobe, which she put on when she got out of the shower, was still on her shoulders. She sighed in relief, tried to move aside. But her arms and feet were just glued to the invisible wall or elevation. Julia first could not even define she stands, sits or lies. Straight, not bent at the knees and the vertical position of the head, pointed to the fact that she still stands on her feet. But why for some reason she can not move her hand or foot? What holds it down? Maybe she is tied? Julia turned her head. Her hands were free, but at the same time stretched out to the side. She looked down. Robe covered her feet. She made a sharp movement with her body from side to side. Robe began to waving, and she had time to saw that both her feet were free. But moving them she was not able to.
Not knowing what to think, Julia looks around in confusion. The room was kind of strange, as if hovering in the air. Somewhere gusts of the refreshing breeze come from. Light, barely perceptible. It is somewhat soothed her, gave confidence.
Julia suddenly remembered everything that happened to her in the dorm room. Strange creature. Max’s photo. Questions asked her by the creature in an unknown language to her. Julia nervously twitched, trying to tear off the invisible shackles. All her efforts were in vain.
“Kidnapping? Maybe they drugged me? Maybe all this was a hallucination? But who? Why? Oh God, maybe they kidnapped me to take my organs? Or maybe it's underground porn studio?” Disturbing thoughts raced like a swirl through the head of terrified girl. She did not find the answers. The room was quiet. No one came.
Julia was about to loudly call for help when she noticed how the twilight in front of her thickened, stir and – surprise caught her breath, she saw the two glowing eyes in the dim light: red and blue. Then out of the shadows came the creature that appeared in her room.
Julia’s heart stopped for a moment, it seemed, was broken and fell somewhere. So it all that happened to her wasn’t a hallucination, not a figment of her imagination. All of this is really happening to her.
Floor underfoot of girl brightened brook flowed with bright lights of light. The creature did not move. It seemed it was waiting for something. Next to it, there was one more creature. Julia turned her head, strained her entire eyesight. She tried to carefully consider it, remember. The creature as if understanding her intention, gave her such an opportunity. It took a few steps forward. Space around got brightened. In the room, if it was a room was light enough. Julia eagerly, trying not to miss anything, began to study the strange couple. The second creature in its height was a bit higher than the first one. The body was narrow of dark color. Hands ended with the same number of fingers, but in the shoulders as if were separated from the body, and moved as if in invisible slots marked with glowing borders. Head of the creature was divided into two parts, each with two deep scarlet eyes. The second creature seemed to Julia not as ugly and scary as the first one.
Oh, Julia, Julia! If only she could know with whom she met. If now in the room was her brother Max, he would at once in the second creature recognize the deadly dangerous and treacherous alien calls plarm. The first one was not familiar to Max, but the second one! He would not be in the place of his sister casually looking at it, but he would obligingly shout: “Julia, beware! This is the plarm! It’s the alien from the other worlds. Clever and very dangerous beast! Run away as far as you can!”
But Max was not beside her. There was no one to warn Julia about the danger which threatened her. Now she reminded the child who was seated in front of a deadly snake. Unaware of the potential danger, the child even might like the snake and wants to play with it. It is not clear why, but the second creature was cute to her.
The aliens were silent. So does Julia. She waited for that logically they first would start talking. Explain what it all means. If a student’s joke, well, pretty witty and original. But is not a time to stop it? If, God forbid, it’s a kidnapping that what the kidnappers want from her? She had no money. Valuable information also does not possess. If she had been kidnapped and taken to a porn studio...
Well there were two of them; maybe she’ll somehow be able to negotiate with them. Explain that she is not the one person they need. In any case, the kidnapping is a criminal case!
The first alien, that who frightened her at the hostel, took a few steps forward.
Julia knew now should something happen. She tensed involuntarily.
‘Karem arhuaco ka?’ Alien asked in a voice from which the chills ran along Julia’s back spine. Both of his eyes were blue.
Julia had expected to see again the photo Max, although the words in the question were different than the first time. Alien didn’t show to her the picture of Max. But to repeat the question or translated into English familiar to a girl language he also refused.
‘I ...’ Julia's voice betrayed her with trembling on her cheeks against her will trickled tears. ‘I do not understand what you are asking about. What does all this mean? Where am I? Who are you? What do you want from me ... I want to go home! Let me go! I will not say anything to anyone ...’ She begged her captors. But they remained silent and ruthless. Her gown, all that she wore clothes slowly started to melt in her eyes. Other definitions, Julia could not choose. Barely a minute later she left completely naked. Blush flooded her pretty face. She made a move to cover up, but could not. Her hands and feet were still shackled like with the invisible chains.
But the aliens seemed had no interest at all her charms. They did not ask her any more questions.
Julia felt some movement. At first she did not understand what was happening. But when she realized she nearly died of fright. The rib cage of her on the left side little brightened, delicate skin became almost transparent, so that Julia could see the veins and muscles, through the skin and then got up and came out of her body her heart! Seeing her own beating heart out of the body, Julia almost fainted. For a moment she thought she was going crazy. Girl's heart meantime did not limp on the vessels to which it was attached, but hung in the air perpendicular to the body. Beating of her heart then quickened, and then slowed down. It seems that aliens were interested in a girl's heart much more than in her nakedness.
Julia knew now they dismantled her organs, and the body thrown into the landfill as an empty box. “Black transplantologists!” Flashed through her fading consciousness. “Mom! Mom, my dear Mom, save me! Help me!” Julia cried mentally in a desperate, calling for help the most precious in the world human being. But Julia's mother, if she heard somehow call for help of her little girl, that in no way could help her. Protect. Protect her from danger. Julia's body was covered with sweat. With her wide opened of terror eyes, she watched the hands of the aliens. She knew the moment when in their hands will appear scalpels, she will not survive in the literal and figurative sense.
Around the heart of Julia suddenly appeared colored needles of light. It surrounded on all sides the heart, and the heart of the girl turned into a kind of hedgehog bristling with needles. Despite the fear, Julia was surprised. There was something strange. That is, it was incredibly pleased that black transplantologists did not start to cut her, but all what was happening was beyond her comprehension.
Meanwhile, the multi-colored needles of light began to stick into the heart’s tissues and disappear without a trace. When, therefore, lost all light colored needles, the body of Julia began slowly lean back. For a moment she was lying on an invisible table. “That’s it! I’m dead!” Flashed through her mind and she did not wanting to see what they would do with her more decided to close her eyes. She made an effort to close the eyelids, but it did not work. The eyes were not closed! Julia was lying helpless, and above her hung motionless in the air her beating heart. Then completely strange, stunning and mind-boggling things began to happen. Fingers on both hands slowly began to separate from her wrists, her wrists from the joints and her joints from the shoulders. Similarly, by parts separated from the body both her feet. But everything still hung in the air, there is no sag on tendons, nothing fell on the floor. Julia felt no pain, only a certain severity, as if her muscles are under pressure. How long she lay in that position, naked, divided into parts, under the scrutiny attention of the two aliens she did not know. Her nerves could not stand such a test, and she again lost consciousness.
Meanwhile, the aliens were continuing to so something with the body of divided into pieces girl. They did not communicate with each other in the usual way for people. One could not hear their voices. They seemed even did not breath. But, without a doubt, communicate with each other. Possibly through the direct transmission of thought, but maybe, they used for this purpose even theoretically unknown on Earth manner. So seemingly different, they were still much closer in appearance, character, outlook and mentality to each other than to the people. And no wonder. Kregles were plarms’ satellites. In fact, using earthly words, they were voluntary servants. Technologically highly developed and implacable to all forms of biological life civilization. Kregles fulfill all wishes of plarms, accompanied during galactic travel. Here, at last, reached the Earth...
White, naked, defenseless, divided into parts the girl's body had been wrapped in a faint blue glow. But not completely, just only in those places where the body’s parts were separated from each other. The impression was that the aliens were treating with some substance the edges of formed wounds. Perhaps they were preparing the girl for something. After a while, the glow was extinguished. Separated fingers slowly pulled her palms, palms to the joints. Julia's body slowly was gathering together. Another moment and Julia looked just as she was before the odd procedure. Her body had no sign of scars, or even redness. It seemed as if she just sleeps with a deep, calm, and peaceful sleep.
Plarm and kregl silently disappeared into the dimness of the room.
 

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