Cardassian bedtime stories for your 2-year old
Mira was of the opinion that Teval should just read stories to the child, but Teval saw no harm in reading tech manuals as if they were stories. And truly, they were when he was the one reading them aloud, caring to make different voices to differentiate the different disruptors – something more guttural for the Klingon, more haughty and high-pitched for the Romulan (because Teval imagined them to have high-pitched voice because of their pointed ears – in Kardasi, the adjective to describe such sharpness was the same), and he gave the Federation a scheming, cunning whispering voice, because he’d always imagined them to be very deceiving like that, beyond the upfront facade they offered. Backstabbing whores, that was what they were, he explained to Izemir.
— the adjective is irpeki, for high-pitched, piercing, pointy things. Aliens count as things.
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