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[hombrenuevo]

I can't believe this! Audio and video in one small device! This is so much better than our radios back home!

[ This kid is definitely excited over his new toy; it makes his Nicaraguan accent a little more pronounced. He's chipper despite the rough shape his face is in. Looks like someone clocked him across the forehead real good. ]

So this really is America? I have always wanted to come to the country where the infamous Big Foot lives! [ He looks around the sunny neighborhoods of Heropa. ] You know, it's a lot warmer than I imagined... Humid, too. Not as hot as Costa Rica, though. But you don't even have a rain forest! Where does it all come from?

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[timeforgotten]

It only seems logical to be interested. Something that unusual on their own planet and not everyone wants to understand it?

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[hombrenuevo]

Well, you'd think it would be that simple! But a lot of times they think they're only stories. But they're not! I've seen monsters before! They do exist!

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[timeforgotten]

I've seen them, too. Nothing specific to this planet, of course. And monsters might not be the most accurate term. There are different life forms everywhere in the universe, though. Sentient, non-sentient, from different environments...

And they nearly always end up causing trouble on Earth! It hardly makes sense at all.

[ But that's 80s sci-fi writing for you. ]

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[hombrenuevo]

You mean—You mean aliens? Real aliens?

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[timeforgotten]

Yes, well. Yes, actually. Alien intelligences. It can be a bit difficult to define when you've got people from different planets all in one place, but the fact they're all in one place and from different planets means some of them must be alien.

I know I'm certainly not from Earth, after all.

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[hombrenuevo]

........ You're... You're not??

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[timeforgotten]

No, I'm not. Actually, I wasn't even from the same universe as the one I was Ported here from. It gets a bit complicated, you know, space travel.

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[hombrenuevo]

Your an alien? A real alien?

[ It's clear Chico has about fifty things he wants to ask, but they all get stuck on the way to his mouth. ]

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[timeforgotten]

Yes!

[ And he sounds a little pleased to get to admit it. He never really got to get to a "show off a little about not being human" point while he was traveling with the Doctor. They'd just show up and people would be going "ah yes here are a few strangely-dressed fellow humans" or "intruders! arrest them!" ]

I was born on Alzarius, in E-Space. Not a terribly interesting planet, honestly.

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[hombrenuevo]

But you look just like us!

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[timeforgotten]

I'd noticed that, yes. I've never understood why. Would it help if I mentioned that my people evolved from very large spiders?

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Oh, unless humans did the same thing. I never thought to ask.

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[hombrenuevo]

Ah... Oh, r-really? Do... you have eight legs? We came from chimpanzees—At least, that's what the current scientific community believes.

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[timeforgotten]

I think I've heard that about humans. I traveled with someone who's very interested in them. And I've only got two legs, by the way. Sentient people on Alzarius wound up looking surprisingly humanoid, all things considered.