"I'd always thought of cerebrates as too big to move - except by magic - but there probably is no such size."
Okay. They've been eaten by a giant space monster. This was expected.
How flattering. I hope you understand if we do not feel the same way. Who do we go to meet?
Sensing that communal consciousness is unnerving. The similarities make the differences stand out all the more. The hierarchy with its levels, the parallel broods, the pervasiveness of it, with everything being alive...
"I didn't expect them to be so polite. Maybe they don't know enough."