I woke up delirious. I wanted so desperately to panic but my body was unresponsive to the cries of “what the actual fuck?!” echoing in my mind. My limbs & waist were strapped. I felt suspended midair & could tell I was facing downward. I struggled to unblur my vision & slowly a curved frame of earth from space came into focus.
Maybe someone was pranking me. Was I sedated & floating above a giant movie screen? Who would or could pull that kind of move? My mind was reaching for any explaination when the framework holding my body began to slowly spin me into a directly upside down position.
A creature levitating in front of my face set a device down to hover in the air beside it & began typing with several of its 20 or so “fingers”. While it was at its task I took a curious look at its unbelievable body. It was expensively broad, twice taller than me with more limbs than I could see or count from this position. It had something like an arm connecting a broad fin to the fingers which were at least a foot long. No two were shaped exactly the same & the ones he used to interact with the device seemed like the smallest & grew from the furthest edge of the fin.