'Intelligent and efficient' weren't two words Depth Charge generally associated with beings with around the same degree of evolutionary maturity as tadpoles, but he was willing to accept that it could happen some day. The people he'd met here hadn't been half bad.

Rather less easy to get his head around was HK's little misunderstanding. Depth Charge gave him a blank look for a moment before, bluntly and maybe a little too quickly, said, "You're really not my type. Either of you."