Strangly

You try your best to shower normally. Tilly refuses to go anyway near the hot running water and just sits and watches and you scrub your naked body with soap. You are also aware of many alien species watching though the see-through walls from the walkway above.

After you are clean you towel off and change into fresh clothes. "So why do you call me mouse?" You ask. "On my planet that is a small rodent creature that has no resemblance to a human. Is my chip faulty?"

"On my planet, we have only two kinds of creatures. There is evidence for more but they are all extinct. There are the Felionester and the mice. The mice eat plants and are small, quick and very intelligent. We Felionester eat mice normally alive and whole although we can be compatible mates and an uneasy alliance was made when the Galatic Council provided us with an alternative food source. We call you, mouse because on our planet everything that is not a Felionester is a mouse. " Tilly replies.

"Do you eat mice often?" You ask.

"Felionester are allowed one mouse per week to eat as it is a biological compulsion to hunt and eat live mice. Mice value academics and law, criminals and underperforming mice are taken to hunting grownds, If the survive the week they are considered pardoned and let back into their society this is the way it has been since the peace treaty. However, with every non-Felionester we meet we have to fight the desire to pounce and eat them even if I make no logical sense on how we would do that. " She explained "You are bigger than our native mouse but I reckon I could get you down my throat with a bit of luck? I heard what you did with Anja, Would you like me to try? Please let me try and eat you!" She begged.