I'm sure you have a lot of things you would rather do than take care of me." As she finished she hung her head as if apologizing to me.I was stunned s... I waited a moment and moved closer to her. I lifted her chin so that she was looking into my eyes as I said, "No, you are wrong! There is nothing in this world that I would rather be doing than being here with you tonight. I am usually bored and waste a lot of my time doing a lot of meaningless things, but certainly nothing that has happened. For the first few days that Ben was on the ship they came to the small cell and strapped him down and appeared to run tests on him. None of the tests hurt, or caused him any discomfort so he did not get concerned during the tests. They talked high voices, that sound female, in a in a singsong language that sounded almost like Chinese, but Ben could not make anything out of it. Then one day the alien that Ben called Shorty, because of its height, came in the room and said in fairly clear. All on my lovely new website. Looking at the member list I was relieved to see only Becca still, but there was at least 100 new requests to join. Sigh. Well I had all day now to go to the restaurant where I used to work and beg, plead, and maybe suck for my waitress job back. I only hoped the idiot that used to bother me had been fired. Hopefully. Or else I was going to probably end up sleeping with him just to make Mistress Jane happy. Lovely. I decided to make a bit of effort for my. The varieties of life the alien had encountered in over thirteen billion years was astounding. The body of knowledge they represented was mind boggling.Caleb found Al's previous host, and discovered a species whose hallmark was their curiosity, as well as their ambivalence towards other intelligent beings. Still, Al and his host had been a good fit. Caleb was startled when he followed the memories of their approach to earth. The crash had not been an accident!Caleb had asked questions about the.