We seem to be having difficulty understanding one another.

[they_took_my_boot]

Now see here, I am not some toy to be bandied about at your leisure-

No thank you, no tea just now.

As I was saying, I am a serious lady and I intend to be taken seriously.

No, really no tea.

Please I am trying to illustrate my point here and your continued interruptions are not helping. Now, where was I?

Oh yes! I must insist you give up on these foolish ideas and put me back where I belong! At once!

Thank you.

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[ten_chocolate_sundaes]

You Europeans and your tea. You're starting to remind me of someone.

Except he'd probably be taken seriously by now.

[they_took_my_boot]

I do enjoy a good cup of tea, it's a standard and central part of the day, tea time.

Are you implying I'm not being taken seriously, and if so, by whom?

[ten_chocolate_sundaes]

Well, by me, for one, but that's no surprise: I find taking humans seriously to be incredibly difficult, period.

[they_took_my_boot]

I see, so you are also not human then. Odd how many people look human but aren't.

[ten_chocolate_sundaes]

Hmm? Oh, this? Oh, this is just so you feel comfortable. I'm Q, you see.

[they_took_my_boot]

You are able to take on forms..not like the one I see? That almost seems magical. You are Q? I don't follow that, is it a species or genus?

[ten_chocolate_sundaes]

Ha ha ha, you humans think in wonderfully three-dimensional terms. So delightfully primitive. [He snaps his fingers, and is now sitting on Jane's shoulder, tiny as the proverbial conscience angel (or devil).]

I am Q. It's name, race, being. We are all, be all, see all.

[they_took_my_boot]

AH!!

[She jumped and brushed at her shoulder to shoo him off]

Personal boundaries, please!

It sounds as though you are suggesting there are more than three dimensions.

[ten_chocolate_sundaes]

[Another snap, and here stands Q, only this time he's bearded and bearing two hefty stone tablets that are oddly familiar to anyone with Judeo-Christian knowledge.]

So many more. The very act of existence itself is malleable and fluid, something the friend you reminded me of a moment ago was able to grasp for a very tiny instant, even with his human understanding.