 How do Bal and Ethaniel feel about the humans?
"It's not what they've done," said Bal, the second alien. "I may remind you that in two months twenty-nine days we're due in Willafours," said Bal. A meteor shower could pass over and their clumsy instruments could interpret it as an all-out enemy attack." "What's worse is that I now find they also have missiles, range one thousand miles and upward. We can't help them," said Ethaniel. The southern plains were green, coursed with rivers; the oceans were blue; and much of the northern hemisphere was glistening white. Ragged clouds covered the pole, and a dirty pall spread over the mid-regions of the north. "All right," said Ethaniel.
 Bal and Ethaniel think humans are very similar beings to themselves.
 Bal and Ethaniel think humans are very similar beings to themselves.  Bal and Ethaniel think humans are crude, rough, and desperate.  Bal and Ethaniel think humans are not very intelligent and superstitious.  Bal and Ethaniel are scared of the humans because humans seem to be trigger-happy.