Job Assignment

The Black Void - Episode 466

I'm afraid that if I try to read the slip of paper now it may be noticed, so I just wait for my turn to be assigned a job. I don't have to wait very long before the woman at the left-most of the three tables is escorted away, presumably to be taken to her assigned workplace. "Next!" the man sitting behind that table bellows.

I walk forward to the table. There is no chair on my side, so I remain standing. The man looks at me like a farmer might examine a horse that he was thinking of buying. "You're from Earth, I believe?" he says.

"Yes," I reply.

"Age?"

"Twenty-three." He makes an entry on a card, as he proceeds to do after each of my answers. One question that he never asks me is what my name is. I suppose my captors don't care.

"Height?"

"Five feet nine inches."

"Weight?"

"One hundred and thirty-two pounds."

"Have you had any serious illnesses, or do you have any medical conditions?"

I wonder whether to invent a condition that might lead to my being assigned to a not to demanding job, but decide that lying would be too risky as they would probably do some medical tests on me to determine if I was telling the truth. "No."

"Are your sight and hearing good without any artifical aids?"

"Yes."

"What was your employment on your home planet?"

"I had just qualified as a lawyer."

  1. "Fairly intelligent, then. You will be a laboratory assistant."
  2. "As you seem to be fit and healthy, you should make a good surrogate mother. You will be implanted with a fertilised egg - or possibly two."
  3. "As you seem to be reasonably strong and fit, you will be a miner."
  4. "You will be a cleaner."
  5. "You will be an experimental subject."
  6. "They need someone at the sewage treatment plant."

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