 What did Templin and Eckert find odd about the children they encountered?
Eckert and he had been chosen to go to Tunpesh and investigate. Warm breezes rustled through Eckert's graying hair and tugged gently at his tunic. Eckert stared at them for a moment, wondering what it was that seemed odd about them, and they stared back with all the alert dignity of childhood. It's because you never suspect kids , Eckert thought, you never think they'll do any harm. Eckert still had the feeling that if you wanted to know his exact age, you'd have to look at his teeth or know something about his epiphyseal closures. He opened another of the boxes and displayed the usual trade goods—brightly colored cloth and finely worked jewelry and a few mechanical contrivances that Eckert knew usually appealed to the primitive imagination.
 They were all impressively healthy.
 They all looked much younger than the children on Earth.  They were all more well-behaved than any children they had seen on Earth  They were all impressively healthy.  They looked much older than the children on Earth