"Lizardmen! These are the real deal! They're even carrying spears! They look exactly like the ones from the movies, just a little shorter..." Peter said excitedly.
"What lizardmen... Why are you making such a fuss?"
Black initially didn't want to pay him any attention. However, seeing that Peter wouldn't stop making noise, the alien parasite finally replied irritably, "What an ignorant ape. They are just basic geothermal organisms."
Peter immediately perked his ears up.
He was just trying to bait information out of the alien! He hadn't submitted a useful intelligence report to the Federation in a very, very long time.
"What are geothermal organisms?" Peter asked, faking wide-eyed curiosity.
Over the past three years, Peter had gradually figured out Black's bizarre psychology. Seemingly influenced by reading too many trashy sci-fi novels on the colony's data-nets, this alien parasite loved to show off...
