The robot bowed. “Please come this way. I prepared tea and pastries for you.”
“It seems like a xenial appliance,” the captain said to the first officer.
“What do you mean?”
“Same as congenial, but this is the word in Greek.”
“You read the classics too much. Let’s just get this treaty signed.”
The xenial welcome she was expecting vanished like a puff of smoke. There was nothing but hostility here.
“Sorry…” she began
The robot bowed. “Please come this way. I prepared tea and pastries for you.”
“It seems like a xenial appliance,” the captain said to the first officer.
“What do you mean?”
“Same as congenial, but this is the word in Greek.”
“You read the classics too much. Let’s just get this treaty signed.”