[That's a funny thing for the clear alien here to say?! No, Guy isn't that space racist. He's been asked this question before by both humanoids and humans, so he takes it in stride.]
Don't worry. Rappigs aren't really a human staple... hold on.
[He doesn't know if she has an idea of what "rabbits" or "pigs" were, so he'll sketch one out for her. He holds out his blackglass for her to see his artistic rendition.]
They're pink farm animals. A lot of people raise them for food, but some people keep them around as pets.
[She's heard of them insofar as they turn up in human idioms? But apart from that, she's never heard of either and doesn't recognise the portmanteau either, so she looks at the blackglass sketch with interest.]
OK, they're definitely cuter than most animals I've ever seen back home. [Beat.] I mean, it doesn't have much competition. I've seen giant worms that could eat a rover whole, and these long-tailed... ah... [Niko described an animal they kind of sounded like - he said they were kind of related to humans.] Like monkeys?... They're called pyjaks, one of them stole a data disk from us once.
[The tone of her voice says that was definitely a weird experience.]
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Don't worry. Rappigs aren't really a human staple... hold on.
[He doesn't know if she has an idea of what "rabbits" or "pigs" were, so he'll sketch one out for her. He holds out his blackglass for her to see his artistic rendition.]
They're pink farm animals. A lot of people raise them for food, but some people keep them around as pets.
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OK, they're definitely cuter than most animals I've ever seen back home. [Beat.] I mean, it doesn't have much competition. I've seen giant worms that could eat a rover whole, and these long-tailed... ah... [Niko described an animal they kind of sounded like - he said they were kind of related to humans.] Like monkeys?... They're called pyjaks, one of them stole a data disk from us once.
[The tone of her voice says that was definitely a weird experience.]
That's... actually about it.