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Maria seemed to ignore Ann’s question, Ann guessed that either she didn’t notice she was being talked to, or she didn’t understand it. Probably both. A quick lookup in her encyclopedia told her that as far as the firni knew, nobody who wasn’t one of them would have understood it. This made her feel stupid.

After reading some very speculative and therefore useless stuff about Earth, she got bored and switched back her datapad to the encyclopedia to look up chess. This game was played with colored pieces... well, that wasn’t going to work then. Too bad. Or maybe she was being too negative now. She asked “Eddie, is chess a very difficult game? Do you think it’s possible to play it without being able to see the board?”

Petting Ip, she used him to idly look around the room. The crew acted very different from what she was used to, firni touched each other all the time and would be in deep openhearted conversation by now. The difference was a good thing, she wouldn’t like to have a bunch of aliens pile on her (that would hurt a lot), but she did feel more lonely here than she felt at the moment she decided to go to the kitchen.

She asked herself if Eddie was the right person to try to make friends with first. Pilots, at least those of her own kind, usually were quiet types with less interest in interacting with others. She did have a pilot friend once who wasn’t quiet, that woman had become rather disturbed because of having to sit in one place and concentrate for a long time. That same friend had died in an accident while working on the same ship as her sister. She had a feeling there was something Saein wasn’t telling her about that.