[ WP ] Humanity meets an alien race who are awed , not by our scientific or military achievements , but by the ability of humans to create fiction .

The keys landed rattling in the wooden bowl next to the door as Felix stepped through the door. 
 
 `` I'm back!'' he announced to no one particular. 
 
 `` Mmmmh.'' came the muffled sound out of Anna's room, gunfire, explosions and screeching Aliens following through her stereo. 
 
 `` Greetings, friend-Felix!'' Shaq-sla bellowed, storming out of the kitchen to greet him, mandibles twitching in giddy excitement. 
 
 `` Woah, careful, Shaq!'' 
 
 Ultarian greeting still weirded Felix out. Lots of bowing and touching and intense eye contact. Shaq was cool and all ( as cool as a freshly hatched Winter-breed could be ), but he suspected she tried to be extra friendly to her human room mates to coerce them into telling them stories. She always used the extra-friendly addendums and joyfully reared her scales whenever they greeted each other. 
 
 `` Have you not forgotten our agreement, friend-felix?'' 
 
 He sat down the shopping bag on the kitchen table and started unloading it, dividing the groceries into the corresponding compartments. 
 
 `` No, I have n't'' he grinned. `` I thought you wanted to wait so you could enjoy it the entire week?'' 
 
 `` I did, I did! But, oh, there is just so much to see! So much information to gather, so many stories to be told!'' 
 
 She perched herself on a chair, her scales and mandibles now vibrating uncontrolably excited. 
 
 `` Just now I enjoyed a stunning lie friend-anna was enjoying!'' 
 
 `` Lie?'' 
 
 `` You know. A... uh... what's that word... story-that-didn't-really-happen-in-the-past?'' 
 
 Felix chuckled to himself as he put the milk into the fridge. 
 
 `` You mean Anna's game?'' 
 
 `` Yes! Oh, it's so amazing how you and your people have such a great capacity to tell fake tales!'' 
 
 Felix did n't respond and simply made a face. 
 
 `` Oh, did I upset you, friend-felix?'' 
 
 `` No, that's alright. It's just... you're weird, Shaq.'' 
 
 `` Yes! We're all weird! Now tell me again the story of the feline predator that is chasing the murine prey, but always unable to reach it!'' 
 
 Felix grinned again, fished the DVD out of the pile and put it in a waiting console.
