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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"...anyway I think Kitty and Susanna should come visit us and I can show Kitty video games," says Klimati.

"Okay," says Kitty.

"Have fun."

chanuphis

After dinner, Miranda takes some Felix and tries to find her alt.

Felix has no interest at all in helping her make a Portkey.

"Rats."

"Ugh. Maybe there's just a - rule, that Kefin has to find her."

Ebele Miranda Swan ༐

chanuphis

"That would be stupid."

"It would be really stupid!"

Ebele Miranda Swan ༐

chanuphis

"Maybe there just isn't one. Maybe he would have found her already. Maybe she's grey and died trying to do some kind of sport."

"That would be even stupider."

chanuphis

Sigh. Hug.

Hug. "We're going to go make a fuss in Boston, want to come?"

Ebele Miranda Swan ༐

chanuphis

"It's not really my fondest ambition, I think I'd choke."

"Okay. See you soon."

chanuphis

"Have fun."

Minor teaches Theodore a American accent. They go to Boston. They stand outside clinics.

"Don't go in! Don't trust them! The aliens sterilized my sister-in-law for no reason when they took her to their hospital!" he tells everyone who walks by. He makes sure his human audience can't hear him before pushing it with "Don't use their birth control, it'll sterilize you. Don't let them vaccinate your children, it might sterilize them. Have as many children as you can now, before they launch their scheme to drive humans extinct and overrun the planet with their own godless damned spawn!"

The oranges in the clinics ask them to leave.

"I'm standing in a public street. If you don't want people saying that you sterilize people, stop sterilizing people. My sister-in-law just went to the dentist," he calls at passersby, "and they sterilized her. They will take your children, they will sterilize you, they will sterilize your children, they are monsters. Don't go to their clinics!"

"We don't do that here."

"The dentist didn't say he did that, and yet she went to the dentist and came home sterilized. I think you're lying. You don't want us to have children, you could hardly make it more obvious. She didn't even have children - none of them - you're monsters. Don't come in here they'll sterilize you!" he calls back out at the street.

Somebody with a desperately coughing child hesitates.

"Don't do it. They might take her from you and never give her back, they'll make it so neither of you can ever have children, they are monsters. She'll be okay, I swear by God -" and the medical help that Minor, shaking his head, has presumably slipped away to get. Mostly the latter. "My sister in law just went to the dentist, she trusted them, she was wrong."

Mother and coughing child scurry away. The orange calls after them but doesn't get anywhere. She scowls at Theodore.

"Are aliens different so they don't understand how evil it is to sterilize people who trusted you and came for medical help? Because it's evil. You can't be a good doctor if you don't understand that."

"I don't even know how to perform a sterilization! I'm a pediatrician and I could have helped that child!"