"That's the 10th time you people have said I'm smuggling something and it's just not true." Doug was beginning to wonder if someone somehow sedated him during his journey and put something inside him.

"Show the scans please" said the officer to seemingly empty air. After a brief pause a hologram flashed into being. At first Doug was confused until he realized his middle was slightly brighter. He squinted through his foggy brain and further realized it was his stomach.

"I was told that snack I ate was simply condensed flavored vegetable matter. If there was something harmful in it I had no idea!" Doug immediately started thinking about everything he ate and drank while on board the last ship. "Wait, you aren't one of those species harmed by water, are you?"

"We are not" answered the officer. "Stop evading the question. How do we remove it?"

"Remove what" exclaimed Doug exasperated. "I haven't eaten or drank anything since leaving home that could even be remotely harmful!"

The officer sighed. He fiddled with a control and the hologram changed to a stomach. "This container inside you has an insanely large volume of acidic fluid that could kill everyone on this station if aerosolized."

It finally struck Doug what was happening here. The realization served to calm his nerves some and he chuckled.

"Do you find that amusing?" The officer pounded the floor in anger.

"No, sorry, I just figured out what is going on. That is a naturally occurring organ in almost all creatures on my home planet. We ingest solids, then that organ secretes an acid to dissolve it so the nutrients can be absorbed by our cells. It would be impossible to remove it without causing my death."

The officer froze aghast. There was a moment of total stillness and silence.

"That has got to be the singular most inventive thing a smuggler has ever come up with to try to get out of being apprehended." The officer stated with an amazed tone.

"I swear to you it's no lie. Go look up the species Human in your data-net link." Doug now knew he just needed to educate these beings then he'd be on his way.

After being left alone for an uncomfortably long period of time the door swung open and the increased gravity shut off.

"We apologize for the confusion and time" said the same officer. "We had to come up with a whole new classification for your species. We appreciate that you didn't just get up and walk away now that we know that high gravity restraint was useless against you."

"Hey, don't worry about it" replied Doug magnanimously. "Just get me on my way, and I'll be happy." Doug was already happily thinking of the sleep he was about to get on the next ship.