Aw, what a waste. And here you’re probably the one person who could take him – since he can’t get in your head to cheat – and you had a perfect excuse, too. I’ve been dying to see how he’d do without that advantage.

“My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of o…”

“My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two…”

“It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the …”

“Not one of them," he interrupted me quickly, shaking his head. "One of us.”