I glanced at the screens again. “Ifour blue friends ever had a civilization they certainly wentdownhill.”
“How true.”
“Can you tell me anything about them?What they eat? How they should act? I’ve never seen anything likethese things before.”
“The galaxy is full of surprises,major, some of them not pleasant. In fact, most of them are notpleasant.” He shook his head. “I can’t give you any detailsabout them. That’s not what this equipment is for.”
I tapped the screen and frowned.
“You don’t look happy, major. Youlook downright irritated.”
“I get irritated when I can’texplain things and I don’t have all the answers. I only have veryfew of the answers and I don’t like it. If you only have a littleinformation, then unexpected and nasty surprises can happen. Idon’tlike surprises.”
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