He felt old. Yet, all the years as an astronaut made him calm in any situation he faced. During the last exploration of this new planet, an alien ship hovered over and beamed him up.
He wasn’t afraid. He was instead amazed at the silence of the aliens. All he heard was the hum of their spacecraft. They removed his spacesuit by telepathy. Instruments came off the wall and moved around him inspecting his body.
He was then returned to the planet. He was glad he was alive. He didn’t know the aliens found him too old to be eaten.
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