A stranger sat next to me at lunch today. We all know this should not happen, don’t we? It just isn’t done! I tried very hard not to make eye contact, but the glimpses I caught of her out of the corner of my eyes were very interesting. I saw flashes of purple hair and a hand that looked silver. Maybe she was wearing a lot of jewelry? I almost looked up at that point, but I stopped myself in time.
Pretending to concentrate on my phone, I watched as her silvery hand opened her lunch box and removed the strangest assortment of food I had ever seen. I spotted one bowl that appeared to be full of pale blue shapes. They very slightly resembled vegetables but not ones I had ever seen before. She had another bowl containing something that looked like black jello.
I couldn’t take it anymore and looked up. “Who are you?” I asked. “Where are you from?”
The girl turned to me and smiled brightly, her orange eyes blazing. “Hello,” she replied, her voice a pleasant, low growl, “My name is Electra and I am from the outskirts of the Andromeda galaxy.”
“Ah,” I reply. “That explains it.”
Which detail from the text is the best evidence that Electra might not be a human?
“The girl turned to me and smiled brightly, her orange eyes blazing.”
“She had another bowl containing something that looked like black jello.”
“I saw flashes of purple hair and a hand that looked silver. Maybe she was wearing a lot of jewelry?”
“I tried very hard not to make eye contact, but the glimpses I caught of her out of the corner of my eyes were very interesting.”