> What is your first impression of the meeting?

"I don't like it.  It's pretty clear that they're giving us this creature - this creature which markedly resembles a human - as a message.  But what are they saying?  They know what we are?  They knew we were coming?  They could enslave us?  And does it mean anything that it's a "princess"?  Are they going to send a hero to free her?  I don't know what they're intending, but my instincts say it's sinister."

> What do you think of the creature, as a xenobiologist?

"Well, it's fascinating obviously.  A bipedal clothes-wearing alien?  It's almost unbelievable!  I gave it a quick scan, and the brain seems to work much the same as ours, but I can't even identify the other organs.  I'd love to dissect one sometime.  And then there's the obvious resemblance to the other alien... I would guess they're at least as closely related as humans to chimps.  Which of course makes the whole thing odder.  Unless... what if this creature isn't natural?"

> If it isn't natural?

"If they created it to resemble humans... Wait, why am I telling you?  Don't air this question.  I need to go."

-Interview of Dr. Josh Curtis conducted by Google Gatherer robot on the day of Ender's landing.

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