Levi could only stutter as he found himself short of words, staring at the brown alien in a lighter brown suit. He noticed Meera was taking the reveal calmly, but her chest was surely rising and falling.
Saunders bent his head and Levi could see more folds on the bald skin of the alien. "Never a good sight for humans we shall be," Saunders the alien spoke in clear and understandable human English when Levi expected him to speak the Ròkks' language.
"I'll introduce myself to you, Levi," Saunders said in a rather cheerful tone. "And also to you, Susan," he added. "As you can see, I am not Edwin Saunders, I am not human. My real name is Hamee-Chan, and I am a hermanoed—which is any being that has the attributes of a Ròkk," Saunders spoke quickly. "In all, I'm an alien," he finished.
[Hermanoed] Lexi's repetition trailed off in Levi's hearing.
