Ariadne did her best to track the voice. She found that most humanoids preferred to make casual eye contact, during conversation. Of course, that was a little complicated when the humanoid in question had no visible eyes. But Ariadne was nothing, if not polite.

"Nancy's your name?" she asked. It seemed like a reasonable assumption. But there was possible there was a nationality or species called 'Nancy' that she'd never heard of.

She'd been learning a lot of new words lately. Like ketchup and nickles and American Express. Although she still wasn't sure about that last one.

What was and American? And what made it move so fast?