I believe it has something to do with the fact that most of the people here are Humans. She seems to have a particular scorn for your species. [Fred offered Lyle an apologetic look.] A view I do not share, by the by.

...odd, I suppose, but no more so than it had been simply being around her. Actually... in retrospect, the whole thing seemed a touch... familiar, somehow. [It was hard to explain, if one didn't have the unique senses Fred and her double both had. It didn't quite feel familiar, it just... seemed familiar.]