It can easily be sold that way. It does make for a pretty enough excuse when all else fails. ['Medicate' away troublesome problems, all sorts of pain temporarily forgotten at the drop of a hat. Or rather at the tip of a bottle, really.

Not something he'd ever personally experienced, merely through observation.]

The planet? I fear I've only heard bits and pieces of it, I'm not in the business of planetology. There were rumors abound that people lived upon it. [But then, at that point in time, there'd been no reaching the planet from earth. Which begged the question,] Were you born there? You appear just as human as our hosts.

[It was enough to cause a gentle break in the usual soft monotone, a slight uptick somewhere, the suggestion of a growing interest in the exact origin of his company... But first-]

I'm of earth, and no where else.