"Nice of you to invite us," President Stone said.
The Earth cracked in half.
"We are fleas on the surface of an egg to them," Le'Fer'Tel'Bo said as wings unfurled from the dust of the shattered globe. "No species we've encountered can tell us what they are, and as far as any can tell they don't even acknowledge anything smaller than a star."
The wings beat the solar wind, and rippled in the star field.
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