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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Pelape Milath

thesignalandthenoise

"I'm not sure what to make of Miranda's parents. My dad used to have bad springs but calmed down a lot after me and my sister were born, my mom has moderate springs but more sex drive than baby drive... and her parents divorced when she was tiny."

Michael Cyrus Way

"So like the names - some resemblance but it's not really consistent, or if it is, it's consistent in some complicated way we can't see..."

thesignalandthenoise

"Yeah."

"We're going to head out today, we handed off the modelling software."

Afen Kisantami

greengreengreen

"And my wife will be missing me."

Pelape Milath

thesignalandthenoise

"Okay. It was nice to talk to you both. I'll probably stay at least long enough to see if I permaspring, reevaluate then."

Kefin Kisantami

"Yeah. Good luck on that front."

thesignalandthenoise

"Thanks."

Amentans go.

too-early-and-too-late

Humans are politely concerned about springing Amentans and slightly more concerned about incidents that might arise as a result of a suddenly baby-crazy occupying population.

More of the occupiers are pregnant! But it turns out that they know how to cope with spring, since they're used to it.

Timothy Laurence Way

too-early-and-too-late

As long as they are not more inclined to snatch humans' babies or anything wizards will not worry what they're doing with their own.

Nope. Although orphanages and such, already dwindling, dwindle more.

Timothy Laurence Way

too-early-and-too-late

Yeah, okay.

Aitim looks through the statistics on school attendance and communications saturation and incident rates and clinic records and decides to try driving down birthrates in Mombasa with a bunch of vocational and continuing-educational and travel programs that you become ineligible for on marrying or on bearing or siring a child out of wedlock. This requires introducing DNA tests, which will be expensive, and his local advisors think it's silly to exclude someone for fathering a child since it's not like they'd be distracted by raising it, but on the whole it's not that much pricier than some of the infrastructure projects in the works.

Schools in Mombasa encourage their students to use condoms or get abortions (or fuck Amentans, which is not officially suggested but is rapidly becoming a popular birth control solution, since Mombasa is near-enough to equatorial to have no Amentans who seasoned properly) and to take a look at a wide variety of exciting program opportunities, including a few which involve travel to Anitam itself.

Mombasa's marriage rates and pregnancy rates fall.

Tahike Lam, amnesiac and slightly pregnant, appears in Geneva.

Tahike Lam and her wife are invited up to Himlin at their earliest convenience.

Tahike's wife is not so sure about Tahike traveling right now.

It'll be really conspicuous if he goes to Switzerland to meet with them. "I should've been in the habit of travelling more and for more random things."

Kan Neli

"Dunno. It's a lot of wasted time. The poor woman."

"They deserve a full explanation now so she can decide whether she wants her baby and so, if she does, we can get them somewhere safe in case the father is planning to pick up the kid."

Kan Neli

"Then go to Switzerland. You heard about the case and wanted to help, that's not very weird and the real answer is insane, so... or I could go, that'd be less conspicuous."