"Once you get over how different he looks, he starts looking quite...appealing." said Alissa thoughtfully, "I've never seen anyone like him before,"

"I doubt you will find very many like him," said Randy. Charles was, after all, the last of the blorknogs to be sent from his home planet to Earth--and there hadn't been a great many before him. Long before Schickelgrubers had decided to settle, blorknogs had been sent to Earth during different time periods to test both their adaptability and that of the humans living alongside them. Their offspring appeared more and more Earthly with every generation that passed, and thus most blorknogs, already rare among humans, were hardly distinguishable from humans in appearance. It was only those of pure blood like Charles who stood out greatly, and those were quite scarce.

"No, and it's almost a shame, he's downright exotic in a way," said Alissa.

"I hadn't thought of it that way," said Randy, "but I suppose one could say that."

Alissa grinned at him, "I thought the same thing about you when I first saw you...something about you just looks different,"

"You mean aside from my size?" Randy questioned.

"Well your features to in a way, you're face has a different sort of cast to it," she remarked.

Randy nodded. "You always were very observant. I do have some foreign ancestry. My father was very dark-skinned and my mother quite fair, each from a different end of the continent."

Alissa nodded, "That make sense," she said, "What of Charles though? Where oh where did he get such a...mane,"

Randy smiled. That certainly was the word for it. "I couldn't tell you," he replied. It was technically true, though not because he didn't know the answer.

"And something else I've noticed, you don't have a single hair on your body...why is that?" asked Alissa.

"I... suppose I am a bit strangely-fashioned," said Randy.

"That's not an answer," said Alissa with a crooked smile, "I've never known a single human to be completely hairless,"

"Are you implying that I am not a human now?" Randy teased.

Alissa was silent for a moment as she regarded him, "Would that be so silly?" she asked softly.

He frowned at her. "What else would I be?"