>>79057
What I'm trying to imply is that it's an awkward conversation between a human guy who was visiting an anthro-populated world to do technical work. He sneaked away from the barracks set up at the project site, attempting not altogether successfully to disguise himself as one of the locals, got a motel room in town, and looked through the local version of a dead-tree "Yellow Pages" phone book fur "adult entertainers." He has done this several times, always with the same fox woman, with whom he is becoming infatuated. The local equivalent of the FBI decided to kick down the door to have an earnest and furthright conversation with one of the crazy aliens who showed up last year.
Other things: the world in which it's set is a sort of cultural echo of the mid 20th Century. They're speaking English, despite being mostly anthro versions of various mammal species, with just a handful of birbs and reptiles. If you got into a time machine and went to 1953, and not exactly 1953 but it's close enough that it'd look and feel right, at least if your exposure to that time and place was old TV shows and movies, except fur the locals not being human. There's even a President Eisenhower and a Vice President Nixon, though there are lots of little differences. There was a Second World War, and Japan there is occupied by US furces, but the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers supervising the occupation there is