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"Tell your people to be quiet, and listen to me."
Human shouted a few words, not in the Males' Language, but in the Wives' Language, the language of authority. They fell silent, then sat to hear what Speaker would say.
"I'll do everything I can," said the Speaker, "but first I have to know you, or how can I tell your story? I have to know you, or how can I know whether the drink is poisonous or not? And the hardest problem of all will still remain. The human race is free to love the buggers because they think the buggers all are dead. You are still alive, and so they're still afraid of you."
Human stood among them and gestured toward his body, as if it were a weak and feeble thing. "Of us!"
"They're afraid of the same thing you fear, when you look up and see the stars fill up with humans. They're afraid that someday they'll come to a world and find that you have got there first."
"We don't want to be there first," said Human. "We want to be there too."
"Then give me time," said the Speaker. "Teach me who you are, so that I can teach them."
"Anything," said Human. He looked around at the others. "We'll teach you anything."
Leaf-eater stood up. He spoke in the Males' Language, but Miro understood him. "Some things aren't yours to teach."
Human answered him sharply, and in Stark. "What Pipo and Libo and Ouanda and Miro taught us wasn't theirs to teach, either. But they taught us."
"Their foolishness doesn't have to be our foolishness." Leaf-eater still spoke in Males' Language.
"Nor does their wisdom necessarily apply to us," Human retorted.
Then Leaf-eater said something in Tree Language that Miro could not understand. Human made no answer, and Leafeater walked away.
As he left, Ouanda returned, her eyes red from crying.
Human turned back to the Speaker. "What do you want to know?" he asked. "We'll tell you, we'll show you, if we can. "
Speaker in turn looked at Miro and Ouanda. "What should I ask them? I know so little that I don't know what we need to know."
Miro looked to Ouanda.