At least he didn't sound completely mental, then. Rory couldn't help feeling flattered.
"Destroyed their weather machine. That and - the thing was, the ones who'd escaped the planet were all male, apart from their mother. So there were hundreds of them, but they'd all die out with no one to mate with, and they'd been taking human women to... convert them." He shuddered, a little. There was no good way of putting it. "Drinking their blood, then - replacing it. Exactly like vampires. Only it didn't work on everyone so they only had five women, and the five of them all came after us. So then Guido ...blew the house up."
He didn't add the and himself part, but it might have showed from his tone. "Guido was the one who - they'd taken his daughter. Isabella. We were trying to rescue her, to start with. That - that didn't work out."
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"Destroyed their weather machine. That and - the thing was, the ones who'd escaped the planet were all male, apart from their mother. So there were hundreds of them, but they'd all die out with no one to mate with, and they'd been taking human women to... convert them." He shuddered, a little. There was no good way of putting it. "Drinking their blood, then - replacing it. Exactly like vampires. Only it didn't work on everyone so they only had five women, and the five of them all came after us. So then Guido ...blew the house up."
He didn't add the and himself part, but it might have showed from his tone. "Guido was the one who - they'd taken his daughter. Isabella. We were trying to rescue her, to start with. That - that didn't work out."