Without a Trace (Halfway to Home)

Alone and hunted, Sam is lost in the cold emptiness of space.Abducted from Earth and whisked into the depths of the Milky Way, Sam wakes up amidst a grotesque menagerie of aliens. Each race is stranger than the last, but all have one thing in common - they’re held by the nalitokk, an extraordinarily advanced species that experiments ruthlessly on what they view as lesser beings. Of their many subjugated aliens, the only thing to makes humans stand out is how unimpressive they are.Adjusting to this new reality, Sam plays a delicate game of charades with the nalitokk, doing everything possible to convince them of humanity’s uselessness. As time goes on, Sam’s captors have come to regard their newest test subject as defective. Damaged. Little more than a pet.Sam is pragmatic - as unpleasant as the deception is, it’s the only option available to survive.But times are changing, and Sam can’t keep the game up forever. With disaster looming on the horizon, Sam has to make some hard decisions about how to break free of their grasp. Decisions which change everything - from the nalitokk’s view on humans, all the way down to Sam’s humanity itself.With the nalitokk hot in pursuit, Sam breaks free with one singular goal - home.