Philip shook his head. “Nothing about you that I’ve seen says you could do anything vicious, well, other than killing animals to stay alive, but that’s self-preservation.”
“You are forgetting, if it is true, that I am from some other universe. Perhaps what you would think was all right here, my people would consider abominable. This is the right word, yes?”
“Yes. It means unequivocally detestable.” Philip smiled at the look Adam gave him. “Okay, not too smart, my defining a big word with more big words. Unequivocally means absolutely and detestable means hateful. Sorry, it’s part of my profession to use words of more than one syllable.”
“It is all right. How will I learn if you talk to me like a baby?”
“Good point that.”
Philip suddenly realized that the room was getting brighter and
