Captured by aliens (It was his own fault)

31. Going to the kitchen

He slicked his hair back and turned a slightly hidden knob, put behind what looked to be a metal, chain mail sponge, a container with a cream coloured liquid and a scrubber.

He managed to get water running, though he did almost trip and fall into the sink on accident.

He then had to jump down slightly and wash his hair, making sure not to get his clothes wet.

Thankfully, the water was lukewarm and he didn't have to suffer too much while cleaning up, although it wasn't very comfortable when he was done and he could feel the freezing cold air on his face and scalp.

He squeezed his hair out and looked for a way to dry it, but didn't see anything to do so  with.

He figured he could just go to Tonuk and it would probably help him out, so he jumped down and walked back to the monkey room.

He noticed that two of the aliens were gone, and now Tegnuk was the only one there, sitting at the desk, along with all the other monkeys running around playing, though he was finally ignored for a little while.

He figured it could also help out, so he got closer, noticing that it was working on the schedule from before.

He still wanted to continue memorising the numbers, but for now he focused on getting dry, as the cold was starting to get to him.

He tried to get its attention, speaking up and saying its name, but for some reason it didn't pay any attention to him for quite a while.

Eventually he decided to tug on its jumpsuit, which finally worked and had it look down at him, seemingly a bit annoyed, though it's expression and puffed up tail went away quickly.

He tried signaling about his wet hair by pointing at it, and though it took a little bit for it to understand, eventually it did, walking into the kitchen.

He followed the twin, watching as it opened up a secret door in one of the walls.

He tried to figure out how he missed it, but assumed that it was again, one of the air toght sealed doors that the aliens liked.

Still, he noticed that there seemed to be a very simple code he had to type to open it, if he needed to, though he still didn't know what it was for.

He watched as it opened up yet another, smaller door and took out a drying cloth, as in, one for dishes.

Tegnuk looked back and for some reason seemed slightly surprised at seeing him there, which confused him.

Tegnuk's surprise went away quickly as it looked back and looked into the sink, then looking back at him and making a weird expression.

He wasn't sure what it was supposed to mean, but Tegnuk then sighed and walked towards him a bit quicker than usual, so he guessed that it was annoyance.

He held his hand out for the cloth, but before Tegnuk gave it to him, it pushed him out of the kitchen and then closed the door with another, hidden door that was inside the wall.

He was confused as to why it did that, but at least he was finally able to dry himself, which he proceeded to do.

Finally not at risk of hypothermia, he decided to look for something to do, remembering the schedule and the numbers, which he wanted to check.

He walked to Tegnuk's desk and looked back to see what it was doing, but he only managed to see a glimpse of it as it went back into the kitchen and closed the door behind itself.

He didn't really know why, though seeing how it looled at the sink and then him, it could maybe be about cleaning, this mostly came from having seen that everything the aliens had was usually spotless, except for a couple hairs, though even this was rare.

He skimmed through the schedule once again, memorizing more things and seeing their written language, once again making him a bit hopeless about ever learning it.

He just could not find many patterns with it, and it looked like a bunch of lines and dots placed at random, which would be very hard to memorize, since he wouldn't have any help.

The only reason he had identified numbers was because they were in columns and it was fairly obvious.

After a minute of grumbling about the words, which he assumed to be mostly names, Tegnuk came back, seemingly a lot calmer.

It then noticed him sitting on top of the desk, and proceeded to quickly rush to where he was.

He was a bit confused, again, as he hadn't done anything, though thankfully Tegnuk seemed to notice this as it carefully grabbed his hands to inspect them.

Tegnuk sighed in relief and sat down, nudging him to the side of the desk.

It seemed to be a bit wary, reaching over to the other side of the desk and closing an ink vial that he hadn't seen.

He didn't know why he didn't look for one, as it was clear that that was what was used to write, but still, he was planning on using it later on.

Tegnuk then stared at him for a couple moments before then speaking directly to him, speaking more words that he didn't recognize, except for one.

He finally remembered that the aliens had given him a new name, Toru, which, he wasn't too excited about, but at least he could know when they were talking about him.

Still, he was going to ignore the new name, just out of spite.

Tegnuk continued to stare at him for a few seconds, weirdinng him out, until it finally sighed and opened up the ink vial to continue writing.