Challenge
The year is 2076. You have just learned that the newly elected President of Earth is not a human, and you are the only person who knows.
Secret Service
She told me on her deathbed.
"Honey," she said to me, her voice weak with age, her gray paper hands resting on mine, "your father wasn't human."
"What?" I said. My voice shuddered.
"He didn't die in a spacecraft crash, like I told you." She paused, took shallow breaths. Her heart was failing, but I waited anxiously for her to finish, squeezing her skeleton-thin fingers impatiently.
"Your father was an alien," she said.
I blinked. "But that would mean--"
"Yes," she finished.
I cleared my throat. "Aliens can't be president."
She smiled. "Don't tell anyone then, Mr. President."
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