Shoulders drooping, she eyed my injury. “Yet you are better?” she asked, doubtfully.
“Yes, a fall from a horse can be easily remedied. Not that we have horses on Everis, so this is a first for me.”
She sat there listening to me, wide-eyed and curious.
“It’s so small. How can it do all that? And if your people came to Earth, why don’t we have this here?”
“I don’t know what happened to the settlers, although you are their descendant, so some must have survived. Right now, Earth is considered a primitive civilization. Your people don’t know there is anything beyond the height a bird can soar through the air. There are no spaceships, no simple flying crafts yet. Your technology is far behind ours, thousands of years behind. No one would understand this.”
She laughed then, more out of stun
