"Well," said Friday, standing outside her new home. "This is it."
"Looks pretty good," Zac said.
"If you think the outside is good, you should see the inside," Friday nodded. "Handcrafted furntiure. They even made a room specially for Elektra."
Elektra looked at Friday at the sound of her name, then back to looking around in general. There was a cough behind them, and they saw a boy about eleven years of age.
"Oh hi, Sextus. I'll meet you inside, Zac," Friday said, and took Elektra's hand. "C'mon Elektra, I've got a special surprise for you.
Zac's eyes follwed Friday as she went inside, suspecting he'd been set up.
"So... hi..." Zac said slowly.
"Hi," Sextus replied nervously. "Umm... I was wondering something. Well, a couple of somethings anyway..."
"Yeah?"
"Well, I was kinda wondering if maybe we could do something sometime. Y'know, 'cause I'd... I'd like to get to know you better," he said quickly. "And also, well, could you teach me about Dathrians? Because I don't really know anything and no one here does and -"
Zac held up his hand and Sextus' nervous babbling stopped.
"I don't think that we'll be able to do much, umm, hanging out," Zac said.
The forlorn look on Sextus' face made Zac feel bad.
"It's not... it's not because of you at all... at the risk of sounding cliche," Zac clarified. "It's just that I got married a couple of days ago and I'm - the band is going back on tour soon. I really don't think I'll ahve the time, but umm... here. This is my number. We can at least talk occasionally, right?"
Sextus' face lit up.
"Right, thanks!" he beamed.
"As for learning more about Daths, well, you can either ask me, or Friday now that she's back - although she might complain if she knew I volunteered her," Zac grinned. "Or you could go to school on the space station. I have plenty of friends up there so you'd be well looked after and everything."
"Space station?"
"Yeah, YIRAAS have their own space station. It's been there since, umm, 2003 I think."
"Wow, I didn't know that. Who's YIRAAS?"
"You really don't know anything about us, huh," Zac mused. "YIRAAS is the major alien organisation."
"Oh. I'll probably have to ask Mom, huh?"
"Probably. But look, if you're interested, I could probably arrange a tour or something so you could see what it's like. Although... for that matter, there is a teleporter here, you could probably just teleport up on Staurdays and hit the library or go shopping or whatever. I'm sure something could be arranged."
"That would be great, thank you!" Sextus impulsively gave Zac a hug, then bounded off, leaving Zac in stunned surprise.