"Well, I don't know how long you've been here, but you must be accustomed to people being from other... worlds by now. I'm sorry if this seems a bit crazy, but-..."
Okay. For real this time. "On my planet, five years ago, there was an explosion in Europe at what we assume was a research lab. The explosion released what we call nanites. As you mentioned, they're nanoscopic machines and these went airborne. The got into everything. The soil, the water, the plants, animals, humans, everything. Including me.
"The nanites were designed and programmed for a purpose, but we only have theories of what they were supposed to do. The ones that were released have incomplete programming, though... Are you with me so far?"
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"Well, I don't know how long you've been here, but you must be accustomed to people being from other... worlds by now. I'm sorry if this seems a bit crazy, but-..."
Okay. For real this time. "On my planet, five years ago, there was an explosion in Europe at what we assume was a research lab. The explosion released what we call nanites. As you mentioned, they're nanoscopic machines and these went airborne. The got into everything. The soil, the water, the plants, animals, humans, everything. Including me.
"The nanites were designed and programmed for a purpose, but we only have theories of what they were supposed to do. The ones that were released have incomplete programming, though... Are you with me so far?"
She's about to get to the important part.