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@@@@@I laid my chin on my knees and waited as he struggledMy patience was rewarded?That planet you were coming from before you were in Melanie,? he finally said?What was it like there? Was it like here?? The direction of his thoughts caught me off guardWith only Jamie here, it felt right to speak normally instead of whispering?No, it was very different ?Will you tell me what it was like?? he asked, cocking his head to one side the way he used to when he was really interested in one of Melanie's bedtime storiesI told him all about the See Weeds' waterlogged planetI told him about the two suns, the elliptical orbit, the gray waters, the unmoving permanence of roots, the stunning vistas of a thousand eyes, the endless conversations of a million soundless voices that all could hearHe listened with wide eyes and a fascinated smile?Is that the only other place?? he asked when I fell silent, trying to think of anything I'd missed?Are theSee Weeds??he laughed once at the pun??the only other aliens?? I laughed, tooNo more than I'm the only alien on this world So I told him about the Bats on the Singing World?how it was to live in musical blindness, how it was to flyI told him about the Mists Planet?how it felt to have thick white fur and four hearts to keep warm, how to give claw beasts a wide berthI started to tell him about the Planet of the Flowers, about the color and the light, but he interrupted me with a new question?What about the little green guys with the triangle heads and the big black eyes? The ones who crashed in Roswell and all thatWas that you guys?? ?Nope, not us ?Was it all fake?? ?I don't know?maybe, maybe notIt's a big universe, and there's a lot of company out there ?How did you come here, then?if you weren't the little green guys, who were you? You had to have bodies to move and stuff, right?? ?Right,? I agreed, surprised at his grasp of the facts at handI shouldn't have been surprised?I knew how bright he was, his mind like a thirsty sponge?We used our Spider selves in the very beginning, to get things started ?Spiders?? I told him about the Spiders?a fascinating speciesBrilliant, the most incredible minds we'd ever come across, and each Spider had three of the