[she pricks her ears towards him politely and smiles back, mostly out of relief. In those moment when the feed had been dead, she'd wondered whether she'd done something wrong.]
I am, sir. There are a lot of them, where I'm from.
[her smile fades to a look of puzzlement as his implications sink in.]
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I am, sir. There are a lot of them, where I'm from.
[her smile fades to a look of puzzlement as his implications sink in.]
...Are you unfamiliar with them, then?