No longer was she an alien thing in his empty universe.
Slowly I reached out a hand and touched the alien thing.
I thought at first maybe it was an alien thing.
You are an alien thing with no interest in the welfare of others.
The near silence was still the most alien thing about the place.
If that alien thing was thinking in my head, I would know everything.
The alien growing things were at least in their right world.
He knew what his own first reaction had been, to destroy the alien thing.
One of the most alien things about them, if you ask me.
"I should have known better than to trust an alien thing."