Shrinking Violet: OK, this is really embarrasing.
Duplicate Boy: I still don't get it.
Shrinking Violet: You're not duplicating Durlan shape-shifting are you?
Duplicate Boy: No! I mean… well, no.
Shrinking Violet: Well, apparently, I mean, obviously, see, on Lallor, females nurse their babies, so they have, you know, prominent secondary sexual characteristics, if you see what I mean. Whereas, on Imsk, and I would imagine in like, most of the rest of the galaxy, females are big and broad-shouldered and flat-chested, because they have to be big and strong to go through pregnancy, right. And the males are the ones that nurse the babies, while the females are recovering, which seems like a really more equitable division of labor, if you get what I mean.
Duplicate Boy: No, I'm pretty sure that Lallor is, uh, more like everywhere else, and Imsk is, uh, like you said.
Shrinking Violet: Really? Oh, come on. R. J. Brande is, like, obviously so pregnant.
Duplicate Boy: No, I'm pretty sure he just got fat.
Shrinking Violet: And in Interlac, "Lad", and "Boy", means male?
Duplicate Boy: That's right.
Shrinking Violet: And when people say "Girl", and "Lass", and "Maid", and "Damsel", they mean female? No, come on. We use the word "Damsel" on Imsk. It means a male who hasn't..."
Duplicate Boy: I'm pretty sure everywhere else it means a female who hasn't.
Shrinking Violet: And when the other, uh, girl Legionnaires say that Ultra Boy is really masculine... you mean that's like a compliment? That is so funny!
Duplicate Boy: Do they say that? What do they say about me?
Shrinking Violet: Wow. This is a little hard to get my head around. So you think Saturn Girl is female? That would explain a lot.
Duplicate Boy: Yes, I'm pretty sure. Titans and Earthlings and Lallorians are all descended from the same basic stock. And Naltorans and Cargggites and Bismollians and Braaliens and Xanthuans and Kathooni and Winathites...
Shrinking Violet: But Imkians and Orzdean aren't. We're from Krillian stock. Say, does that mean Ayla is a female? You know, I mean, where it counts. So in Interlac, "brother" would mean "male sibling", and "sister" means "female sibling"?
Duplicate Boy: Look, I'm still a little freaking out about all this. I mean, we kissed. We almost...
Shrinking Violet: Well, obviously our relationship is going to have to change, but we can still be friends, right? I mean... hey, you wouldn't mind if I asked Ayla out, would you?
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