I've got a list of names | Glowfic Constellation

Afen is disappointed in the universe. He bounds back and forth across his room explaining why to his wife, his infant granddaughter, the end table, and a reporter flabbergasted by her good luck and cringing silently against the wall in the hopes he won't remember she's there.

"There is no reason to suppose that a species evolving independently of Amentans, with their own evolutionary history and living mammalian species likely related to theirs, would end up looking like us. None. Every explanation every scientist has ventured to the press has been unimaginative and unconvincing retroactive refitting of bad models to baffling data. Aliens shouldn't look like us but with different hair colors. Aliens that are not made out of carbon at all would be unsurprising; aliens with only as much physiological dissimilarity as exists between us and animal species on our planet would be mildly surprising; aliens with opposable thumbs would be truly remarkable. This is not remarkable and biologically enlightening; this is just inconsistent with everything we understand about the universe. It doesn't teach us new things about evolution; it should make us rethink evolution. - don't quote that part, they'll take it out of context."

Reporter nods rapidly.

"All of that said, I've picked up three of the languages and I'm working on building a good machine translator, it's a challenge with as little as they've produced in the way of electronic records. I'm absolutely going there to meet them as soon as the politicians figure out what to do with themselves."

"Do you have any predictions about that?"

"About politics? Why would I have predictions about politics? They deliberately obscure relevant information, for one thing, and for another it's deathly boring."

"- I mean, sir, surely you hear from your son about -"

"I have seven children and some of them are very dense indeed but not quite dense enough to try to interest me in politics."

"I was referring to -"

"I know who you were referring to. If you want a statement from Aitim go bother Aitim."

"Thank you for your time."

"I did not alter my activities in response to your presence and therefore you can't yet be said to have wasted any of my time though you should go before you do."

...out skitters the reporter.

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too-early-and-too-late

"Kitty, do you want Miranda to take a look at -"

wealth-of-nations

"I asked that. Not a priority."

too-early-and-too-late

"Okay. Miranda also has a little flipbook for her cat to communicate, would you like something like that?"

"She can't read," says Susanna. "- she doesn't want kids, she might want her mouth fixed if you can do that, then she can talk. Cats can read?"

too-early-and-too-late

"Miranda has a magic cat. She can probably also do something about her mouth, let me -" he fashions a paper airplane. He prods the paper airplane and it flies off into the house.

Michael Cyrus Way

"Aaron, how did you meet -"

wealth-of-nations

"Running a currency exchange in Massachusetts. Yes, it's really really weird."

chanuphis

"Just a bit," says Isaiah.

Miranda comes out of the house holding the paper airplane. "What's going on?"

wealth-of-nations

"Can you fix a swollen jaw from dental surgery."

chanuphis

"I've never tried it but it sounds fairly receptive to the all-purpose stuff..." She peers at Kitty's face, pulls out a wand, waves it.

"Thank you," says Kitty, touching her jaw.

too-early-and-too-late

"These are Isama and Klimati's corresponding humans, apparently."

chanuphis

"Uh," says Miranda to Aaron.

wealth-of-nations

"I had no idea! - we're married for Statute reasons but I thought she was a man when I offered, I have absolutely no idea how the correspondence thing works."

chanuphis

"This makes it that much more likely that there's a me."

too-early-and-too-late

"We should probably not count on Kefin running across her by sheer random coincidence even if that is how things have played out so far. Kitty, what do you want us to do for you?"

"Susanna wants to sue them and that's fine with me. I'm really more upset about being put in a - I'm not sure what it was - than about not being able to have children though."

too-early-and-too-late

"Yeah. We can try to make them change their policies on that too. If they'd just left you alone would Isaiah or someone have come by after a bit..."

"Yes, she knew where I was going and would have come looking after I got stuck," says Kitty.

"The dentist didn't know anything, said you got patched up and went home," says Susanna.

too-early-and-too-late

"How would you feel about making them at minimum change to 'wait with someone for an hour to try to contact family, and tell people in last known location what happened' and making them set up a missing-persons place that is in constant communication with whoever hospitalizes people and would have at least known where she was?"

"An hour might not have done it, I didn't know how long aliens took to pull teeth," says Susanna. "But telling the dentist or missing persons would have done the trick."

too-early-and-too-late

He nods. He texts Aitim.

wealth-of-nations

"Can I get you guys anything to eat or drink?"

"I would love anything that is not a liquid," says Kitty.