"Were ye always so smart?"
“Smartly-dressed or smart as in clever?” XI answered the man with whom he’d struck up conversation during his latest break on Earth. It wasn’t as though he was constantly confined to his home planet. The Council could always call on him if someone decided to invade, which was possible while the transduction barriers weren’t yet operational. “I used to wear plimsolls a lot, a long old time ago. As for clever.. probably. Relatively speaking. Is it that obvious?”









