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    Day 22: Shared Eyesight

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    Logan keeps his eyes closed when the extraterrestrials drag him into the room, slowing his breathing and relaxing his muscles into figurative dead weight. His abductors clearly have no in-depth knowledge of human physiology, because his sudden relaxation after being drugged nearly an hour before is taken in stride. They leave him on the cold floor, sound fading as they abandon what they think is his unconscious body. 

    Then, as always happens when Logan’s eyes are shut for more than a minute, his soulmate’s view swims into sight.

    Dull white walls and a white floor; two tanned arms, one noticeably more scarred than the other; a thick metal door and sleek electronic shackles on both ankles. Logan is familiar with the sight, but it still makes his jaw clench, causes his fingers to curl into fists.

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    "My antennae are vibrating," Janus announces, popping out of nowhere to sit next to Remus, who chirps in alarm, "what are we talking about?"

    "The human's ability to crawl inside the engine ducts."

    Janus's antennae turn a vibrant shade of blue. "The human did what now?"

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    The alien birds didn’t seem to know what to make of him. They must have been important if they were buying intergalactic pets and providing them whole rooms to themselves, but if Logan had ever heard of a human before, he didn’t let it show. 

    Humans were horrible, from what the smugglers had said, because outside of Earth-- their deathworld, was what they had called it-- they were stronger than most species, and a heck of a lot more durable. The humans who got to space fell to their worst impulses, got addicted to killing, or so beaten down they were desensitized to it. 

    Patton would never be used to it. He wouldn’t try to be, not even if his life depended on it, not when he remembered how those first aliens had crumpled like paper mache under the force of a few blows. That was why he’d ended up with the fish people in a reverse aquarium, for being so boring. 

    That was why he stayed still and relaxed when the birds came to visit him, and let Roman touch his face and arms when he wanted to, even though Virgil tried to stop him. He didn’t want the birds to be afraid he would hurt them.

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    “Its funny, you know?” Roman said, glancing towards Virgil. “A year ago Remus told me he had taken in a Deathworlder, and I thought he was crazy. A Deathworlder? But now that I know you guys I can’t believe I didn’t get my own sooner.”

    “Remus has a human on his crew?” Virgil asked.

    “Oh, I wonder if you know each other!” Patton added.

    Virgil bit back his original comment, and let the weight settle in his stomach. If Remus had a human in his crew there was even more of a chance that Remus was dead, because the Pol’turs had chosen to save the mysterious human for last.

    “Earth is a big place,” Virgil said instead. “Like really big. They’d probably be from like Russia or something.”
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    aka the cosmos is a gigantic place and Virgil's past still catches up to him.

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    Virgil is accidentally outed as a spider, man. Patton is Patton about it.

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