"One of these days I'm going to do a survey of as many bar patrons as I can find, and ask them about their doors - where and when they find them, how long the doors last, etc. - to see if there's any discernible pattern. It would be a completely altruistic and heuristic endeavor for all the people that have told me that their doors alarm and/or frighten them. Patterns are reassuring things, if they're comprehensible"

She eyes him speculatively.

"For someone that's never been off planet, you don't seem surprised at all to meet giant green women."