Shadow Mountain [NaWoWriMo] house of cards

So caught up with the aliens Maegi was that she didn't notice the voice growing closer and louder. All she could see was their pincers, and she screamed as they pierced her flesh, taking out—something—presumably useful? They took it from just past her stomach, and then sealed her back up, hiding the prized object and scuttling away with sounds that seemed to her like snickers.

And then she was pummeled suddenly on one side, and wheeled around, eyes blazing and hollering, in a ragged voice: FUCK YOU!

Only to blink and see Driftwood crouching anxiously nearby, and her mouth fell open. They got you, too?! Maegi whispered in horror, bristling. Did they cut you open? Did they take anything? What do they want, Driftwood?! In other circumstances, she would be overjoyed to see her old friend from Undersea; these were dire times, though, and all she could focus on was the present.