That didn't go down quite as bad as I was expecting.
The interesting thing in the beginning, to me anyway, is that there was definitely an "alien" feel to the aliens, who sometimes to end up as funny looking humans in a lot of fiction. With Lally, it's a definitive human take. You can infer his motivations very clearly.
Next chapter should be particularly interesting on Lily's reaction and how it skews - how his actions are justified in his thinking.
Or... probably I'm just overthinking all this.