"Normal...?" The word actually, genuinely puzzles Jim for a long moment before he remembers that right, Steve's used to dealing mostly with only ordinary run-of-the-mill humans. It's easy to forget sometimes, when you grow up in a multispecies Federation, that some people aren't used to being around nonhumans. Or at least, people who can do things most humans can't. "Ordinary humans still being the scrappy underdog, huh? Determination goes a long way."
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