pentasine

I found one of my old notebooks today - apparently it's one that I used to make brief notes of ideas / dreams in. I wish I hadn't been quite so cryptic, though - I have no idea what "leery about taking to shore - dispute over who inherited raft. Smugglers? Horses?" means, although it sounds intriguing!

Less cryptic was the following fragment:

(Why do the translator microbes translate English, but not Klingon or (apparently) Spanish?)

"We don't take people away to study them!" The small grey alien exclaimed indignantly, then shuffled its feet. "Although... we, ah, did occasionally - um - borrow someone."

John raised his eyebrows. "Borrow?"

"We always put them back as soon as we were done!"