Tall gray alien race, the larger siblings of the Null, known for halting soothing speech.
Reading the cookbook taught Carl to recognize Quasar's kind: a Nullian, a race similar to the much-taller Forsoothed but standing only about four and a half feet. Quasar calls the Forsoothed the nulls' "soother big brothers."
Where the Forsoothed speak in a halting cadence, the nulls talk in a gritty rapid-fire New York accent that Carl finds even more unnerving than the soothing version.
Tall gray aliens of the same broad type as the Null, with a distinctive halting manner of speech.
Kindred species to the Null, used as Carl's point of comparison.
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