A quiet celebration.

[Melander]

Jake listens to the strange woman, intrigued. When she reaches a hand up to his face, he lets her touch, instead of flinching away. The noise of the music and chatter at the party slip away, Jake's vision changes, and scenes of an event, almost forgotten, play back with clarity. He remembered... 'Aurora?'
A voice spoke, breaking the silence.

"You already know the answer inside you but you refuse to conceive it as possible."
Sound and vision returned in an instant, loud music and lights assaulting his senses. Jake's mind was trying to process was would be done next. He had a thousand questions to ask, but the thing that came up first wasn't exactly the most important.

"So... I was hitting on an alien? Wait! Uh, ignore that part, why do you look so... Human, then? Is this the 'new vessel' you were talking about?"