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Literature

More Than Words

"I thought about making it some sort of grand romantic gesture," she said. "But it seemed like it might put a lot of pressure on your response if there were other people around." Algrady, the doglike alien, set his tools aside and looked down from the raised platform he was standing on. There was only one other person in the room. He'd known Ashley, the Earth-being, for going on twenty years now, and he'd never known her to do something like this. "Nice socks," he said. "I don't have any shoes that fit. Forgot to get some." She chuckled nervously. "I'm just glad I remembered the clothes." Algrady stepped off the platform to get a closer sniff. It smelled just like her. And it looked like her too - down to that weird human thing where they only had fur on top of their heads. But she didn't look human anymore. She looked... well, a lot like him. "This must have been what Misam was here for?" "Part of it." "Did- did you do this just for me? I never would have wanted