< I never said it was difficult, just nonsensical, > Ax retorted. He saw that expression, Brainy, and he didn't care for it. < And I didn't say anything about four legs and a tail, just two legs and no tail being an odd choice. Taxxons have lots of legs and no tail, Hork-Bajir have two legs and a tail, Skrit Na have six legs or two legs depending on what point of their cycle that they're in, and humans have two legs. >

He gave Brainy an imperious stare. < Just because they can't do it to you doesn't make them not monstrous slavers. And anyway, the species they can't enslave, they annihilate. >