"He doesn't make mac and cheese every day, it's just my favorite."

"Oh. I don't think I want the other thing. Can you have him make mac and cheese for me if that's okay?"

"Why're you asking me? He doesn't just do whatever I tell him."

"We have some leftover mac and cheese from the day before yesterday if you like," says Dad Grey.

"I'd like that!"

"I don't know how I'm 'spposed to talk to other people's bigs."

Dad Grey dumps leftover mac and cheese in a bowl and sticks it in the microwave for Fika.

"Like you talk to whoever else I guess?" says Kid Grey.

"I don't think they talk to me like they talk to whoever else? Or I guess they might but they talk different than I think they would."

"I dunno what you mean," shrugs Kid Grey.

"I'm not sure either. Just is a thing my brain tells me I noticed."

"Well I think probably you can talk to them like normal even if they don't talk to you like normal. Because it might be 'cause you're an alien but it's not like it's a rule you have to talk that way to aliens."

"Hm. I can do that but do you think it's okay if I forget sometimes?"

"I don't see why not."

"Good, I'm not good at remembering new things sometimes cause I can remember so many old things."

"Why don't you write stuff down?"

"I'd have to write down soooo many things! Also writing things down doesn't last that long."

"Well not if you write on a whiteboard or something. You have to back up everything all the time."

"I've never seen a whiteboard. I meant writing on paper or leaves or with chalk doesn't last very long. How do you back things up?"

"You copy them to a cloud-storage-thing."

"Oh, like changing the clouds so they make the right shapes?"

"........no it's not like rain clouds. It's like computers."

"Oh. What are those?"

"Like pocket everythings don't have all the data ON them on them, they just get it when you need it from other computers."

"What's a pocket everything?"

The kid pulls his pocket everything from his jacket's inside pocket.

"Oh I saw one of that! Warm bed's big Amentan had one. What's it do?"

"Well, everything. That's why it's called that. I mean not EVERYTHING everything but most stuff."