She signaled to him from across the main ocean. He transferred his consciousness to join her on the edge of one of her wide prairies.
"I think we've done very well," she said.
"Surely you didn't call me all the way here just to say that."
"Yes. It really is Earthlike, isn't it? I felt it was about time you congratulated me."
He thought back.
"I don't remember, now," he said. "But it seems to be roughly similar."
"Roughly! After all this time, you dare to suggest I have only achieved a rough similarity? I was a trained sociologist, kindly remember. It is exactly like Earth."
He looked patiently up at the satellite and the stars. She was detailing the achievement interminably.
"It's very difficult to tell," he said, interrupting her. "Our time scale is quite different from what it was on Earth. These humanoids of ours breed and die like ephemerids."
She rustled impatiently.