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I was in Milliways taking a break because things back home were busy even by the usual standards.
We'd just finished making additions to the Draco Tavern to accommodate some new species, including the suwedelfin, who'd just arrived earlier in the - my - day. A major news network had sent an anchor and a television crew to cover the visit: the media occasionally take an interest in my little establishment. The suwedelfin also made a big deal about it. They're an interesting species, but very big on formality and propriety, so I had to take part in a greeting ceremony when they arrived.
I still had a gift from the greeting ceremony; a suwedelfin translator, which they'd synchronized with the database of the translator systems in the Draco Tavern. Suwedelfin communicate through bioluminescence and don't pick up sound the way humans and other verbal species do. The translator was a fist-sized transparent sphere with a smaller shiny black sphere in the middle, so it looked kind of like a fish egg. When I held the ball in my hand and spoke, it would flash different patterns of color, both inside the ball and in a sort of holographic aura that extended for a few inches beyond the ball's surface.
I was having a lot of fun playing with the translator, reciting poems and singing songs - quietly, because I don't keep on key too well - and watching the little ball light up with my words.
We'd just finished making additions to the Draco Tavern to accommodate some new species, including the suwedelfin, who'd just arrived earlier in the - my - day. A major news network had sent an anchor and a television crew to cover the visit: the media occasionally take an interest in my little establishment. The suwedelfin also made a big deal about it. They're an interesting species, but very big on formality and propriety, so I had to take part in a greeting ceremony when they arrived.
I still had a gift from the greeting ceremony; a suwedelfin translator, which they'd synchronized with the database of the translator systems in the Draco Tavern. Suwedelfin communicate through bioluminescence and don't pick up sound the way humans and other verbal species do. The translator was a fist-sized transparent sphere with a smaller shiny black sphere in the middle, so it looked kind of like a fish egg. When I held the ball in my hand and spoke, it would flash different patterns of color, both inside the ball and in a sort of holographic aura that extended for a few inches beyond the ball's surface.
I was having a lot of fun playing with the translator, reciting poems and singing songs - quietly, because I don't keep on key too well - and watching the little ball light up with my words.