Fine, I'll write part 2.
Five months and five days
Goli didn't sleep well. She rarely does. The human language had recently entered her dreams. Before only her native tongue was present there. The humans never forbade the Old Tongue, perhaps in an attempt to seem less suppressing. It was almost never worth using, though, as most humans unofficially punished its use. Those who did speak the Old Tongue were subject to harsher punishments for the same "crimes", and sometimes random beatings. It was no longer a secure lines of communication either. You could never tell when a human understood the Old Tongue. Howard was a cold bastard, but he was smart. He probably knew it well enough to detect any rebellious conversation. Anyway, there were few times when Goli was expected to talk to non-humans. She was, at least in title, a high advisor. Goli had no true power - the humans only gave that to their own. An expert on her own kind, Goli was somewhat vital to Howard's successful management of their small town. Even so, Goli was mostly treated as a servant, forced to spend her time tending to Howard's every whim.
Howard was still a little freaked out about yesterday's meeting. It was all metaphors and broken logic. They were trying to convince everyone of something, but Howard couldn't tell what it was yet. Another special meeting was arranged for the afternoon. Probably a continuation of the last. Howard wasn't interested, but he knew he was going anyway. It was mandatory that he did. Lassa leaves are more stimulating than relaxing, but they were still enough to distract him. He went back to his paperwork. If only he could get Goli to do it for him, but that would be illegal. All paperwork is to be done by humans, no matter how boring the load is. Then Howard's focus shifted again. A new wing had added to the building, and the damn company wouldn't tell him what it was for. It was security level 9. Level fucking 9. What could they have put there that needs such high fucking security? They brought helicopters too, and evacuated everyone from the building while they "unloaded cargo". Someday Howard was going to sneak in there and find out just what they were hiding. He could use Goli for that. Some of her kind had bypassed security doors before. Howard wasn't exactly sure how they did it, but Goli might, and that would be good enough. Shivers went down his spine as he imagined one of those creatures breaking into his room with the same technique. Howard, who always had a gun on his person, wouldn't hesitate to gun down an unexpected visitor.
I assume each part doesn't have to be the next day, but it seemed appropriate to do it this time. Also, we need a name for the alien race. It was hard to find ways around the lack of a name, and I really don't want to come up with it.
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