Jack of Harts

I was there the day the Peloran made Contact with us. I watched them walk on the surface of the Earth and my first thought was to wonder if this was truly the first time for them. That first entourage had just the perfect mix of alien and humanity in their manners. They looked and acted so much like us in so many ways, and yet there was a carefully crafted alien manner to their movements. I say crafted because I never believed they had come to us unprepared. They were too much like us to make that kind of mistake so far from home. They had shown us a human face to make us comfortable. And they showed us alien manners so we could not forget where they came from.