Xenophobic

“No, I don’t suffer from xenophobia. And if you don’t know, only homo sapiens suffer from this sickness. We don’t.”

“Then why don’t you come with me? We have never travelled in an aircraft. We must, at least once.”

“But I am scared of x-rays. You can’t board an aircraft unless you pass through an x-ray machine.”

“That’s an excuse you have just thought of now. You know we can fool any machine. But if you are xenophobic……...…”

“No!” she shouted as loudly as she could. “I am not and, if you insist, I will come with you but if the x-rays expose us, you would be responsible.”

They arrived at the airport masquerading like Indians.  The woman watching the scanning machine was shocked to see the scan when one of them passed through the scanner.

“She must be an alien? No, she is a witch,” she mumbled. She asked the woman to step aside.

She glared at her friend and vanished.

Her friend wanted to scream. But she did not. Instead, she followed her companion into their invisible world.  

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A post for A to Z April Challenge

Today’s letter X