(Another episode in our ongoing series of off‑planet adventures, now with 100% more pachyderm.)

Scene: A sunny savannah. Orin is standing beside an elephant, holding a single hair between his thumb and forefinger. Sera is watching him with an expression of patient disbelief.

Orin: (holding up the hair) Honey Bunny, look. I have the hair of an elephant.

Sera: (flatly) Congratulations. You have found a hair.

Orin: (grinning) Want to know what the rest looks like?

Sera: (sighing) Orin, I have seen the rest. I helped design the rest.

Orin: (undeterred) Yes, but have you seen it today?

Sera: (crossing her arms) You are holding a single hair. This is exactly the sort of approach that scientists take. They find one tiny piece of evidence, and suddenly they think they understand the whole animal.

Orin: (looking at the hair) It is a very nice hair.

Sera: It is a hair. The elephant is over there. Eating grass. Being an elephant. You do not need to extrapolate from a single hair. You need to look up.

Orin: (looking up. The elephant is indeed there.) Oh. Right.

Sera: (shaking her head) You are impossible.

Orin: (putting the hair in his pocket) I prefer eccentric.

Sera: (stepping closer) You need to grow up.

Orin: (raising an eyebrow) Make me.

(A long pause. The elephant continues eating grass. A bird chirps.)

Sera: (smiling slowly) You are going to regret that.

Orin: (grinning back) I never regret anything when you say it like that.

Sera: (turning to walk away) Then catch me.

(She walks. He follows. The elephant watches. It does not understand humans. It goes back to eating grass.)

Orin: (calling after her) What about the hair?

Sera: (over her shoulder) Keep it. You can add it to your collection.

Orin: (muttering to himself) I do not have a collection.

(He looks at the hair. Puts it in his other pocket. Then runs after her.)

(Curtain.)