"Oh, man," Jayne said with a laugh. This ... this had to be some sort of trick. Whatever those crazy kidnappers were up to with their observations or whatever. He stared at the little ... tiny ... absolutely minuscule ... person? and laughed again.
"So what're you supposed to be?" he drawled as he relaxed his position slightly. "Some sorta ..." he waved one hand, not certain what exactly word he was searching for. Or the concept he was looking for, come to that. Really, he'd never encountered this, or anything like this before. They sure as hell didn't have anything like this where he was from.
Jayne shook his head and wondered if maybe he was seeing things. Did they put something in the water? "Well, what are ya?" he prompted when he couldn't come up with the word on his own.