When she said, Don’t be so dreary, he doubted very much this would work. And he told her so. What did I just say? she asked. And he shut up.

He told the doctor he’d eaten beans the last few weeks, it was a new diet, and that was why they now found themselves on a different planet.

She noticed his shoes first which was just as well; he wasn’t good looking. But she respected his choice in shoes. Until she saw his socks.