Under the Skin (2010)
“She opened her eyes. The endless night sky was all above her, glittering with a million distant stars.
She was lying on her back, in a vehicle with an open top, parked in a garage with an open roof.
It wasn’t her car; it wasn’t a car at all, she realized slowly. She was lying inside the splayed flip-top hull of the transport ship, under a yawning aperture in the steading roof.
‘I persuaded them the fresh air would do you good,’ said Amlis Vess, somewhere not so far away.
Isserle...y tried to turn her head to find him, but her neck was so stiff it might have been clamped in a vice. Barely breathing for fear of bringing on the pain, she lay very still, wondering what was raising her head up from the metal floor. With her clammy fingers she felt, alongside her paralysed hips, the texture of what lay beneath her: a rough woven mat, of the kind humans liked to sleep on.
‘When they brought you out of the lift, you seemed to be choking, almost suffocating,’ Amlis went on.MoreLess
She was lying on her back, in a vehicle with an open top, parked in a garage with an open roof.
It wasn’t her car; it wasn’t a car at all, she realized slowly. She was lying inside the splayed flip-top hull of the transport ship, under a yawning aperture in the steading roof.
‘I persuaded them the fresh air would do you good,’ said Amlis Vess, somewhere not so far away.
Isserle...y tried to turn her head to find him, but her neck was so stiff it might have been clamped in a vice. Barely breathing for fear of bringing on the pain, she lay very still, wondering what was raising her head up from the metal floor. With her clammy fingers she felt, alongside her paralysed hips, the texture of what lay beneath her: a rough woven mat, of the kind humans liked to sleep on.
‘When they brought you out of the lift, you seemed to be choking, almost suffocating,’ Amlis went on.MoreLess
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