He shook his head finally.He shook his head finally. "So Centaurs, Humans and Satryls have hands, Dolphins and Pamthreats have 'Hands,' Tindals have mittens, and everybody else has paws." "Right." "But I've met Satryl's with fur on their hands," he pointed out. "They're still called hands." He sighed, bobbing his head. "I'll never figure this out." He frowned at that. "And AI's just have whatever happens to be lying around." "Pretty much." He shook his head in frustration. I finally had a good chance to look at Anni. Not that she had changed much in four years. Her skin was made of very fine dark-green scaling, almost microscopically fine over the bridge of her nose and under her eyes, which were wide with vertically-slitted irises of a coppery-blue color. On the sides of her hairless head two tall, narrow triangles ending in sharp points were her ears. Her hands had three fingers and a single, opposable thumb, and I smiled when I realized that she, like me, had the annoying habit of tapping her fingers when she was bored. She was still thin, although I wondered if she would gain the same weight her mother had; the Queen Stevves was quite overweight. llerki have no visible mammae. Shen interrupted my musing. "Cargo door sixteen, dead ahead. |