An uncomfortable feeling seemed to settle in the air. All those present - you included - shuffled and fidgeted nervously, unsure if the human was going to do anything.
Humans. Such a unique species. The only species to have ever evolved sapience on a class 10 planet; a death world. Earth, as their homeworld was named, was, compared to the vast majority of habitable planets, hellish. Utterly hellish. The Landmasses constantly shifted, allowing tectonic activity such as earthquakes and volcanoes to run rampant. Vicious beasts lay in the untamed jungles and dusty savannahs. Crushing gravity, a dense atmosphere, and soakingly humid air debilitated all but the planets' natives.
The human fidgets in his reinforced chair, glancing about at the various aliens in the room. "Uh, I guess I'll go next..." Cracking the gravity densened bones of his manipulator digits, he stands and begins to read aloud from the slip of 'paper' he was holding. Of course, you're barely paying attention, the words simply manifesting as a background noise as you look the human over.
Who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea to invite a human - a brutal species capable of ripping off limbs and crushing spines with such ease that the average in their species had little trouble doing it - to the interspecies poetry club?!
"...Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away..."
The human smiles nervously, showing a set of teeth that could shear through bone evolved on countless worlds less harsh than his. "So, what do you guys think?"
These 'multiculturalists' were strange, even for humans. Always wanting to experience what other cultures have to offer, despite the tenuous peace between humanity and the rest of the galaxy, inevitably and unintentionally scaring all those they met wherever they went.
The human turns to you. Oh please no, no, no, no...
"Pretty good, huh?"
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