ZEX was still very pleased at having made a new human friend here, and while he hadn't really posed the question just yet, he hoped she'd be open to some of the experimentation that he'd done with some of his other friends. Surely things weren't so bad!

"Yes, it's very good to have friends here." ZEX smiled a bit, although it faltered for a moment. "It does keep one safe at night, of course, although I must admit... back home, I did not have a great deal of friends either. Much less any humans." Such a shame, the slave shield...

"But many things have changed here." Struggling not to think about that too hard, and to keep his smile.