Bab 318: Chapter 318: You're the One in the Pit

To her surprise, he sat absolutely still while she tried to get down all the little details about him. His skin was green and copper again, with snake like striations. Caine had told her about the the-ory that humans used to be apes when they were on an isolated area of the farm where no one could hear them. He'd been much more informed than Joseph. She didn't want to appear igno-rant to him, of all people, so she'd never said anything, but she thought that theory farfetched. For one thing, humans weren't covered in hair all over like the apes used to be, and humans could speak. Also, apes had tails. But if it was true by any chance, could the aliens have been snakes once?

In spite of his strange skin and strange eyes, he was almost handsome with his clear-cut features and the ridge that ended just above his eyes. She drew the ridge on his head. "Does the ridge on your head look the same on all of you, or does it have differences you use to recognize each other by."