"Can tell you dislike I sound like you."
Okay, first, yes, but second, they can read your thoughts? You put a pin in that to discuss later. "Yeah. Could you stop that?"
"Unsure if can." You have the uneasy sensation of the alien probing your brain, and then you really wish you hadn't thought the word "probing." "Is this better?"
Now the alien sounds like your fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Pinch, who looked like her last name and smelled of cigarettes and menthol. She was a holy terror. "Can you sound like someone I don't know?" Ideally someone whom you're not still afraid of?
"Is hard. Am pulling from your experiences." Then, "Better?"
Their voice is a high tenor or low contralto, androgynous and unlike anyone's you can remember. Most importantly, it's also unlike yours. "Much."
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