Through the Portal

Silk is a young woman afflicted with incapacitating birth defects who has done her best to work around her problems, though at twenty-three she is still trying to get through high school. Her physical issues have had her in and out of medical care since birth. The bad news is the symptoms are all that can be treated but not the causes.

Struggling to make her way home from school, her fate just keeps getting worse. She is abducted by creatures in a huge blue and gray sphere and whisked away to their home planet for study. While being transported, a being, calling itself Ranger, comes to communicate with Silk, it tells silk one of the purposes of the abduction was to see if she can be 'repaired'. To what end the alien didn't elaborate other than to indicate a trip through a mysterious portal would be necessary.

While waiting for the alien to decide her disposition, it strikes Silk that maybe fate didn't take a dump on her, maybe fate had smiled upon her in its own strange way. Human medical procedures could never make her whole again, perhaps through alien intervention she could be 'repaired' as Ranger had suggested. When the alien returned to relate her options, Silk readily accepted everything part and parcel not worried about ramifications.