Meanwhile somewhere else, an Inkling strokes her chin in thought. "The new squids in town...I'm not the only one who...notices anything different about them, am I?"
The Inkling man beside her strokes his chin as well. "Hmm...oh, perhaps you mean the hairstyles."
"And their eyes, and their speech patterns!"
"Speech patterns?" The man recalled the "broken" Inkling many of the newbies tended to speak. "Ah. Right."
"Yeah, that's not just some fresh new slang, they actually talk like that! Which means they speak-" -she gasped, putting a hand to her mouth- "-a different language than ours, Tim! A different language!"
"Jellyfish speak a different language. I, for one, don't think it's such a big deal."
"Oh, so they're JELLYFISH now?"
"No, no, they're not." Tim shook his head with a sigh. "Is it really quite so important? They're really not such bad people, Roxie."
"That's what they WANT you to think!" Roxie grinned. "I'm GOING to get to the bottom of this, and I'm GOING to expose them for what they truly are- ALIENS!"
"Aliens? By Jove, no, they're not aliens! They're not much different from you and me, you know?" Secretly, Tim knew they were Octarians, but he wanted to protect them at all costs from such a maniac as Roxie.