We're Not from Here by Geoff Rodkey

Author:Geoff Rodkey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

I DIDN’T EVEN try to understand Yurinuri’s lesson that afternoon. I was too excited about my conversation with Marf and Ezger.

Assuming the rest of their species had the same taste they did, it was huge news. If the Ororo liked our TV, and the Krik liked our music, maybe they’d want us to stay on Choom.

And if so, couldn’t they help get the Zhuri to change their minds?

By the time class ended, I’d rescued the whole human race in my head by forming a music-and-TV-based alliance with the Ororo and the Krik. When Yurinuri dismissed us, I headed for Ezger, but he and the other Krik raced out the door so fast that they were gone before I reached it.

I was about to follow them into the hallway when Yurinuri called out to me.

“Lan human, may I speak to you for a moment?”

“Yes, sir!” I walked back to the front of the room, and he lowered his voice so the departing Zhuri kids and my guard couldn’t hear him. “Have you given more thought to your presentation?”

“Oh! Yes, sir!” Actually, no. So much had happened over the past day that I’d forgotten all about it. “I just, um…need a little more time. Do you have any advice about what I should include?”

“As I said before…” His voice was almost a whisper. “Some people think the human has positive things to offer our society.”

“Okay! Any things in particular, sir? I was just talking to a Krik and an Ororo about comedy and music—”

He interrupted me with a loud whine as he looked over my shoulder. “It should be educational, Lan human.”

I turned back to see where he was looking. My guard was halfway across the room, flitting toward us.

“The purpose of your presentation is educational,” Yurinuri repeated. “Do you understand?”

“Yes, sir.” But not really.

“Very good. I will see you tomorrow.”

When I got to the hallway, it was so packed with Zhuri and Krik that finding Ezger was hopeless. There was also no sign of Marf, who would’ve been impossible to miss as the only Ororo in the school. I’d been hoping to hitch a ride home in her fancy silver pod, but I wound up taking my usual generic one and sitting in silence with my armed guard as I tried to puzzle out just what the heck my teacher was asking me to do.

“Positive things to offer” seemed like they should include some kind of art, maybe even music or comedy. But the chief servant had called that stuff “poisonous,” and just mentioning it had seemed to freak out Yurinuri. Like Marf and Ezger at lunch, he hadn’t wanted my guard to hear me talking about it. Plus, he’d insisted that my presentation should be “educational,” whatever that meant.

None of it made a whole lot of sense, but I figured I could ask Marf about it if she came over to our house like she’d said she would. Even if we couldn’t so much as talk about things

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