"I don't really have an excuse for that. Humans play all kinds of games, but nobody asks me to participate often enough for me to turn it down when the chance comes along," She says, after a moment's thought. It's odd, this guy.
He looks human enough, but the way he talks doesn't make sense; true, most of her friends are American, so there might be a cultural oddity, but Ten didn't think so. Eight billion people on the Earth was a lot even for a thing like her to befriend, and she was the least human thing imaginable. Even so, she knew humans. After nearly twenty-thousand years of nothing but watching them, listening to them, talking to them, she knew humans.
"Listen, I've been watching humans for a long time. Don't get me wrong, I love them, I am in love with every one of those weird little critters down there, but the thing is... they're not as subtle as they think they are, and you're trying to be real subtle. Granted, I don't really have any idea how I got here, or where here is, but you definitely didn't work for NASA. So, don't take this the wrong way, but:
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He looks human enough, but the way he talks doesn't make sense; true, most of her friends are American, so there might be a cultural oddity, but Ten didn't think so. Eight billion people on the Earth was a lot even for a thing like her to befriend, and she was the least human thing imaginable. Even so, she knew humans. After nearly twenty-thousand years of nothing but watching them, listening to them, talking to them, she knew humans.
"Listen, I've been watching humans for a long time. Don't get me wrong, I love them, I am in love with every one of those weird little critters down there, but the thing is... they're not as subtle as they think they are, and you're trying to be real subtle. Granted, I don't really have any idea how I got here, or where here is, but you definitely didn't work for NASA. So, don't take this the wrong way, but:
Who are you, really?"