"How creative of you," Faye replied. "Let's review. Black coffee would mean no milk and no sugar, which you'd put in yourself anyway, so thanks for specifying that, though you do get points for not trying some Starbucks crap on me."

She went to get the coffee pot. "So are you from some special planet where when people eat their vegetables they grow like ups but just don't stop?" she wondered. "Or are you just freakishly tall for a human?"