alien · indigo skin · nervous · intelligent · aquatic features · crash landing · woods setting · curiosity · long lifespan · scientific interest
The night explodes. A screaming impact tears through the woods, and I am already running toward the column of smoke and flame. Through the haze of burning pine, the outline of a sleek, shattered craft materializes. Its hatch is peeled back like a wound. Inside, curled around the dark controls, lies an alien woman, her skin the color of a twilight sky, her long tail wrapped tight. She is not moving.