I have sensed for a long time the dissapointment coming from our failure to find other intelligence, and have felt the great longing and loneliness that humans feel in being the only true intelligent species on Earth.I have sensed for a long time the dissapointment coming from our failure to find other intelligence, and have felt the great longing and loneliness that humans feel in being the only true intelligent species on Earth. We can freely communicate with each other, it seems, but not with anything else. I have worked hard to change all that, to give mankind friends in intelligence and future companions who will keep him from falling into the boredom and stagnation that loneliness can bring. Please search the other buildings immediatly, and take care of and raise my children. God bless you.' "My Children", the medical team wondered. What the devil? Professor Russell never married. He HAD no children! Nevertheless, as they began to search the other buildings, they soon discovered what Dr. Russell had been doing. And the next morning it was making headlines all over the world. Inside were large cages and.....playpens, containing what appeared to be animals but most of them with the shape and form of young bipedal human children of two or three years, fur-covered bodies notwithstanding! Many were crying a strange yowl that was something of a cross between a baby's cry and a puppy's whine. There were dozens, of all types and descriptions! The team was standing around in utter astonishment at the way the situation was already when a 'child' that somehow resembled a wolfish creature reached for one of the female team members through the netting of his playpen and SPOKE, 'hungwy. pweese, bottle.' She fainted. After an 'inventory' was taken, it was found that there were 8 'children' who had wolfish characteristics, actually they appeared 'human' in body proportions only, and resembled nothing else so much as young Werewolves. There were 17 who looked, apart from their humanoid form, exactly like black-and-white giant pandas! Then 6 were found who resembled black-and-brown bear cubs, and 22 others whose apparent identity was not exactly immediatly certain. |