I smiled in spite of myself. “Thank you, Dllenahkh, but y’know, I think that’s you, not the tea.” A faint smile curved his lips as he looked at me. For a moment, I saw … I don’t know how to explain it, but I saw just a man—not an offworlder, not a foreigner, nor even a colleague and a friend but just a man, relaxed, smiling, glad to be in my company.
