What the Small Gray Visitor Said

It isnt often that a visitor from outer space gets stranded on Earth but it happens every so often. When it does its an accident. No one intends to get stranded anywhere after all. This visitor is female a botanist and a telepath. The alien carries a Small Gray environmental suit with her. She is looking for plants that can be grown on her own planets severely depleted ecosystem. The alien has just uprooted one when she finds herself stuck on Earth during a planet-wide pandemic. It is a spring day when Arielle an author and editor-for-hire spends her morning as she usually does: writing editing blogging drinking coffee and sitting with her cat while looking out the back windows into her yard. She gets up to stretch and takes a walk around her beautiful garden to enjoy some sunshine smell a few iris blossoms and survey her berries and herbs. Suddenly she sees something under her honeysuckle bush. At first she thinks it is discarded plastic litter that has blown around the area and she picks it up in disgust only to see that it is gray as light as a feather and definitely not plastic. It has a face or rather a face-covering. She glances up to find herself face-to-face with a stranded visitor - the owner of the suit she is holding. She takes her in...after her husband a scientist tests them both for the virus. The tests come back negative of course. The aliens anticipating microbes that are not endemic to their own world have immunized themselves against Earths pathogens before venturing out of their ship. Find out what happens next and what the Small Gray Visitor said while she was here.