"Take your seats." a gray-haired woman announced as earth children began to swarm into the classroom.
"Who is she?" I asked with sudden curiosity.
"Earth Teacher." Zim alisema sullenly. "I will instruct wewe in the ways of the earth-people after the school-day is over. Tomorrow is a siku in earth-time when we do not come here. It lasts for two earth-days."
I smiled at the way he referred to everything as earth-something.
I began to walk to the back of the classroom as Zim had told me, when the woman rapped a ruler on her desk.
"You, girl. Come here!" she hissed. With my small booted legs I stumbled...
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