Four hundred thousand years of evolution goes a long way in a species formerly immortal and ageless. It might be safest to say their ancestors were aliens.
The speaker nods, cocking his head to one side in an almost birdlike gesture so that one eye fixes on Tsybenko. "Comrade Tsybenko doesn't look very happy to be here," he observes. "Drafted?"
"Volunteer," says Tsybenko, and mutters something under his breath in Russian. A translator would be able to tell it was less than complimentary, at best.
The speaker shakes his head, his gill-slits flaring briefly, and turns back to Kirk. "Ah. The ambassador. All right. I am Lua'al-rei of the Greenland Shark Moiety of the Deep One people of Ahvenanmaa Province. We come to Beaked Whale's waters at Y'ha-nthlei's request, to find the humans who want to pry the walls open between this world and the one from which we came." He pauses. "Beaked Whale has had... rather more and closer contact with humans than we."
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The speaker nods, cocking his head to one side in an almost birdlike gesture so that one eye fixes on Tsybenko. "Comrade Tsybenko doesn't look very happy to be here," he observes. "Drafted?"
"Volunteer," says Tsybenko, and mutters something under his breath in Russian. A translator would be able to tell it was less than complimentary, at best.
The speaker shakes his head, his gill-slits flaring briefly, and turns back to Kirk. "Ah. The ambassador. All right. I am Lua'al-rei of the Greenland Shark Moiety of the Deep One people of Ahvenanmaa Province. We come to Beaked Whale's waters at Y'ha-nthlei's request, to find the humans who want to pry the walls open between this world and the one from which we came." He pauses. "Beaked Whale has had... rather more and closer contact with humans than we."