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chuckle. These things, whatever they were, apparently had the technology to spy on humans and even to bring them into their world, but for all their technology, they couldn ’ t figure out emotions. “I ’ d say I was sorry, but I ’ m really not.”
    “If you think this is bad, you should see council members reacting when someone points at them. They understand the concept of a gun, but a lot of them haven ’ t watched humans enough to realize there ’ s a difference between the machine and the pointing finger, although I wouldn ’ t try doing it if I were you.”
    “Council members?” Roger kept wondering what kind of acid trip wonderland he ’ d fallen into. He looked back to see the top of the creature ’ s head peering at him from behind the protective layer of rock, but he didn ’ t come all the way out of hiding. He reminded Roger of one of the characters from those old Warner Brother ’ s cartoons whose expressions were always frozen in terror a few seconds before they blew up or were smashed by one of those giant boulders.
    The corners of Firturro ’ s mouth even curved upwards a little as he looked at Tigaffo. It was clear that he also found the apprentice ’ s behavior somewhat comical. Firturro turned to Roger and patted him on the shoulder, once again causing a radiation of warmth to ripple across his flesh with each brief touch.
    “Don ’ t worry, Tigaffo will be all right as soon as he trusts you a little more. For now, I ’ m going to send him to report to the council.” Firturro turned and motioned to the frightened Tigaffo. “Go and tell the council he ’ s left the chamber while I take him to his room to rest.”
    Tigaffo hesitated and stepped out from behind the rock, visibly trying to shrug off his fear as he shuffled a little closer. “But I wanted to study the human more. There ’ s so much I need to learn from him.”
    Firturro laughed, a deep guttural sound that echoed down the hall. “Obviously, if you can ’ t even function through a greeting without getting startled, you ’ re not going to be much use to me. There is a lot to be explained, and your desire to study Roger would only complicate things. Go, tell the council what ’ s happened and report back to me in a few hours.”
    Tigaffo moved down the dark hallway, his body becoming a shadow between the weak lights. But Roger could still see the purple glow of his eyes each time he turned back to look at them before he finally disappeared around a bend in the tunnel. He looked over when Tigaffo had disappeared and noticed that the two burlier creatures were still standing off in the shadows, letting their presence be known without crowding him. It reminded him off the photo ops with the President where the secret service was always just off and to the side.
    Roger noticed a smile still played across Firturro ’ s face, and it changed his appearance dramatically. No longer did Firturro seem like a dangerous being, and Roger felt himself relaxing despite his earlier promise not to.
    “Sorry you had to stay in the chamber so long. Our worlds, Obawok and Earth, are close on a certain level of space, but they are vastly different when it comes to time. Because of this enormous time difference, human bodies need a certain amount of time to adjust. ”
    “What level of space? What time difference? What Obawok?” Roger asked, his head swimming with visions of alternate realities, dimensions, black holes, sun nurseries, and so much more. He ’ d never thought about all the infinite possibilities of space and time travel before, but he found that once he started, he couldn ’ t make himself stop.
    “Obawok is our world as well as the name for our people, and it exists in harmony with your world on a variety of levels. However, time here moves rather quickly compared to time on earth. One year of your time is equal to roughly 100 Obawok years.”
    It took him a second, but Roger began to add the time up in his head, trying