Thread: Science really does cause problems (with Midnight Lass)

Mila could have almost been mistaken for any eighteen year old teenager living in an upper middle class neighborhood in North America. Her mother was a physician with a thriving, private practice, while her father was a well respected corporate lawyer. Being the oldest of the professional couple's three children, Mila had been enrolled in every course that her parents though would help develop their child's many skills, actual and imagined. By the age of eighteen,, Mila was accomplished in the style of mainstream martial arts whose studios had popped up just outside of many middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods. She played a sport which ensured fitness without risking serious injury, did dance and acrobatics, thrived academically, and went to musicals and museum openings with other children whose parents were in the same socioeconomic stratus as her own. Yes, Mila could have been mistaken for any teenager who had grown up in a North American gated community, except for one thing. Mila wasn't human. Mila had grown up on a world quite similar to Earth, though it was at least a thousand light years away. Not that she thought about other planets a lot. That was something her youngest brother did. He was the real science fiction and fantasy geek. Mila had other things to think about. Like music and boys. Martial arts and boys. Dancing and boys. Did I mention boys? Not that Mila inew a lot about boys. Nothing at all, in fact. Her parents were the classical helicopter parents, constantly hovering over her, and having scheduled all of her free time, they didn't think Mila had time for boys, at least not in this stage of her life. It didn't stop Mila thinking about boys, though. At the moment, Mila was home alone in her bedroom, playing and dancing to a song with suggestive lyrics that her parents definitely wouldn't have approved, and wearing sleepwear her parents definitely wouldn't approve of, consisting of a top that barely covered her top and a forbidden near G-string that her mother would have gone berserk over,if she knew her daughter owned on The singer Mila was listening to had just apologized once again for arousing her paramour when Mila froze. There was a glowing light coming from somewhere, making her room brighter and brighter. At first, Mila thought her parents had returned early, and the light was from their automobile, shing through her window. Then Mila realized she was the source of the light. Startled, she looked down and saw the a light was emanating from her. Mila didn't have time to panic, though. One instance, she was glowing in her bedroom. The next, she was gone. Mila closed her eyes when the light got too bright. And then the light vanished. When she looked around, she saw herself in some large metal box, looking out at another person. Well, she didn't know if that was another person. He was dressed like another person. But it looked like the person had been in a really bad accident. He didn't have any fur on him at all, except on the top of his head. And no tail! Mila's brain couldn't come up with any reason why she should be standing in front of such a person, unless... Was the glow some kind of accident to her? Was she in a burn ward of some kind. Mila looked down at her own body, but it looked fine. And she didn't feel as if she was in any pain. Satse em iek? she asked, in a near frightened tone.