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

Timothy looks up Isama's email and emails her too.

You have a corresponding human! Aaron married her without realizing. She and her sister are here if you'd like to come visit.

He married her? He wasn't even seeing anyone.

too-early-and-too-late

She was involved with some magic stuff and he was trying to figure out how not to run afoul of the Statute. They're not romantically involved.

He likes her, though.

He'd better. We can all come over for dinner your time lunch ours.

too-early-and-too-late

Sounds good.

And so at dinner they are joined by Isama and Klimati and Kantil and two children (Hala having already returned on her own recognizance from her date).

wealth-of-nations

"Timothy did you tell them -"

too-early-and-too-late

"No."

wealth-of-nations

Aaron looks warily at his alt and Isama.

Michael Cyrus Way

"If you're like 'oh yeah that was reasonable' I'll hex you," says Michael.

"...thanks for the warning?" says Isama. "Is this what dinner at your house is always like? Hala, they don't attack you, right -"

"I've been fine," says Hala. "But then I don't say much."

Theodore Thowegood Way

"All of the randomly kidnapping and assaulting people has been from your side."

too-early-and-too-late

"Kitty, would you like to explain -"

"Not really."

wealth-of-nations

"Do you want anyone to explain or should we just not get into it."

"Kitty went to the alien dentist with a toothache," Susanna says. "Didn't come back. Turned out they'd picked her up for blocking a doorway and put her in an institution and sterilized her because why not."

"- that's not what mental health nuisance is supposed to do, they've always been really nice to me," says Klimati.

Isama's dinner roll is a casualty of this information.

wealth-of-nations

"You have colorful hair so they think you're a person."

"They're not supposed to do that at all," says Klimati. "There's a long procedure for trying to figure out if somebody's incapable of obeying population laws and you don't even have those yet. And they're not supposed to put you in an institution if your family can take care of you. That's awful."

"What's Aitim doing about it?" Isama asks, wiping crumbs off her hand.

too-early-and-too-late

"He's coming here to talk about that. He revoked their visas and filed a complaint with the medical licensing authority but it seems like it should be illegal, not just 'go home and stop that'..."