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Meet'n Greet Part Deux

Obs Deck usually had the most people at any given time. It was a large comfortable room, and it had places to sit.

This was where Leela led Kurt.

"Looks like we got some new people other'n you," she said, gesturing with her thumb towards a floating boy with a leather jacket that was mingling with other people nearby. Looked like there were a few others, too.

"You wanna meet the bosslady first or just everybody?"

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Leela had told him there was a dinosaur-man. What he didn't expect was pretty much a velociraptor in a plant-suit. One that spoke pretty decent English, at that. Alright, Kurt was gaping in surprise, like some dust-farmer kid from the middle of nowhere.

No, there was no anxiety, now, only a sort of glee in getting to interact with what looked like a very cool museum prop. It might dawn on him in a moment that he was standing near a predator of decent size. Not to mention it was an alien.

"Ah, no, actually. I am from a planet called Earth." Weren't most of them. Then he was forcing a small smile. Nobody had seen his kind before, after all. He was one of a kind.

"My name is Kurt. I, ah, am a human." Though certain humans certainly didn't want to treat him that way all the time. Tiss'shar. These were the sort of aliens he could cope with.

"He's just a different-lookin' one," Leela cut in. "I'm Leela, by the way. I caught your name, but don't think we've had a chance to talk yet."

It was difficult to tell puzzlement by Red's face - his face didn't change from the same stoic expression. But when he reared his head back and seemed to measure them with one slit eye, it was evident. "Really...another Earth Human?" He was gradually beginning to form his own theories about this "Earth." Those theories included "Everything from this planet is called a Human, even if it isn't."

He lowered his head back down, bobbing it in what must have been his attempt at a bow. "Pleased to meet you both. And my apologies... I've been trying to piece together what exactly is happening here. Socialization takes a back seat to that, I'm afraid."

Well, equality and all that.

Kurt wasn't going to be offended by that look, anyway. It was a harmless sort of surprise, and the smile just wasn't leaving his face. Kids liked dinosaurs, and by God, he wasn't very much of a grown up. "There are a lot of unusual variants in the human gene pool, at least from the Earth I am from." That was an understatement, to say the least.

"No, it is fine. I get that often." His smile turned wry, then. "Understandable." A blink, then, of yellow eyes. "Has anyone told you that you look very similar to some extinct species on Earth?" Perhaps that wasn't a polite route of conversation, but damnit, he was curious.

"Which is pretty bitchin' cool?" Who the hell DIDN'T like dinosaurs?

Red had never been to Earth, and now he had a strange feeling he didn't want to. It's never really a good feeling to hear your species was whiped out before it had a chance to develop elsewhere. Especially when it was looking like just about every other species on Earth did manage to survive.

"Er. No, I didn't know that." A whirrrr-ing sound came from his throat as he stepped from foot to foot. Obviously it unnerved him. "They weren't killed off, were they?"

That would be a kick in the snout- if all these Earth Humans carried some kind of deadly Tiss'shar-slaying pathogen...

Kurt tried to imagine a caveman stalking a talking dinosaur. The idea didn't stick. It was too ludicrous, even for him. "Well, no. They vanished millions of years before humans developed. No one is quite sure what happened, there." Red's presence could easily start up some crazy theories. The dinosaurs didn't die out, they left in spaceships.

"I, uh, did not mean it like that." The guy was getting antsy, and Kurt shot Leela an 'oops' look. "Just that it would be an interesting coincidence." Open mouth, insert foot. Only in his case, Kurt could probably physically do that.

"They think a meteor. Asteroid. Took out MOST life on the planet at the time. They think only small mammals survived because they were so small. And then they went on to evolve into larger mammals, apes, and then humans," Leela explained. "They don't think dinosaurs had gotten smart enough to talk by then. And had humans been alive at the time, they'd have probably died off, too."

Somebody watches the Discovery Channel. ~~Boom de yada boom de yada...~~

Red relaxed, his posture lowering and tail flicking back and forth. Although it was a somewhat surreal turn for evolution to take, in his mind, at least there hadn't been some kind of horrific bloodbath.

"That's...somewhat of a relief. Earth seems like a very complicated place. Well, to an outsider." He opened his mouth, showing off teeth. If Red had picked up this "smile" from other Humans, no one had bothered to tell him it looked more like he was waiting for someone to stick their hand in so he could bite it off.

"Are you from the state-city of New York as well?" Toxin had failed to elaborate on the exact size of New York, or how the city differed from the state. Red simply assumed it was the only major city on Earth.

Alright, he was more into literature as far as classes went, and his idea of a good night in front of the tube wasn't Animal Planet. It was movies with jeeps that blew up. Then again, she'd know that. "What she said." Sheepishly. Still, as long as the scaley guy didn't get offended.

"Any new culture is complicated, even for members of the same planet. I cannot imagine how it is for actual aliens that meet." How utterly fascinating. The smile was charmingly bad; the teeth simply made it difficult for something like that to be friendly.

"Not originally. I came there for, ah, study, and stayed quite awhile. I am actually from another country altogether. Maybe I can find a map somewhere." Yes, he would gladly give the dinosaur a geography lesson.

"What's your planet like?" He was imagining a tropical jungle or.. something, but it had to be different. After all, this creature was very civilized.

"What he said. Earth's complicated for humans. Right now, least on the Earth where I'm from--and probly where he's from--there is no worldwide unifying cultural identity thing going on. There's gotta be thousands and thousands of cultures and subcultures. Think they've figured on over 6,000 distinct languages, last I read about it..."

Do not get the wannabe (if she ever got home) history professor started on cultures, people.

Red blinked. It looked like a shark blinking, a lid coming up inside the eye and sliding upwards over his pupil and back down again. "Ah, I was under the impression that New York was the primary port city of Earth. Although, one of the other crew members informed me you have no spaceports there." He clicked to himself. "My apologies, I should have guessed. Humans from the various Core Worlds act very differently, I should have supposed that they have even more subcultures on their homeworlds. That many languages..." He drifted off. With so many variations on communication, how did Earth Humans ever get anything done?

"My homeworld? Coroscant is a city. Like most cities, I suppose. Only much, much larger. She covers the planet's entire surface." He bobbed his head, as if agreeing with himself. "And a good portion of what's below the surface as well."

"We are not spacebound.. yet." Now that was exciting, wasn't it? "Though it seems a few of us are getting a glimpse of it, whether we like it or not." Kurt glance upwards, absently, as if expecting someone to be listening. Though with all these conversations going, simple eavesdropping would probably get boring. "It can be difficult to keep up, yes."

A planet that was a city. Trying to consider that really did hurt his head. It didn't click with what he expected at all, either. "That sounds.. claustrophobic." Kurt liked the outdoors, open space. "Incredible for a visit, but I would not want to live there."

"You have seen a lot of aliens, right? Ever see any small ones.. with grey skin and big eyes? Flat faces?" Now he had to know if those things from X-files were a real species or not.

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