"No," Aedo said.
The alien stomped the tape camera and the communicator to bits before I could get a hammerlock on him.
Ellik just stared at the complete wreck of our only means of communication with the spaceship.
"I be much man now. I much smart. Much smart than Azure hicks and Indigo slobs. I much smart all. I much man! Not to be all same now. No." The snarl hung on in Aedo's throat.
Ellik lifted his head and sort of smiled. But not quite.
"Well," he said slowly and sadly, "what could you expect in the way of gratitude from a dirty alien?"
The Azures did accept Aedo all right. They seem to think he must have come from some other tribe. They don't associate him with the Indigo that disappeared. No Indigo ever became an Azure before.
Of course, Azures sometimes become Indigos, we found out.
It seems there's a virus of what Ellik called pseudo-cyanosis in the air. The Azures have become a pretty resistant breed to it, while the Indigos are all easy victims. But once in a while an Azure will come down with it and turn Indigo.