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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waylaid

"We have our own well for water - is that likely, Timothy -"

too-early-and-too-late

"I don't know! They've been publishing lots more stuff but none of it mentions population control - there's a schedule and proposed locations for schools and clinics, we can elect a human regional coordinator who will get to work alongside the skyperson regional coordinator, planned completion dates for infrastructure projects are this-and-that, Bishop So-and-so said such-and-such about cooperation - nothing about population controls -"

"I want to work aside the skyperson cordnator," says Judith.

too-early-and-too-late

"When you're grown up."

She looks devastated.

too-early-and-too-late

"Maybe we should think about other angles on finding a blue to interrogate. Can we do a point-me towards the authors of announcements or something -"

Ebele Miranda Swan ༐

chanuphis

"Are they signed?"

too-early-and-too-late

"They are not."

Ebele Miranda Swan ༐

chanuphis

"Then no, not readily."

too-early-and-too-late

"I'll write James, he can check the Hogwarts library or bother his Charms teacher or something."

Before this investigation bears any fruit, a tanner whose business has been suspended for sanitation reasons takes a flying leap at a purple.

Aaron Meriwether Way

wealth-of-nations

Tracking charm.

too-early-and-too-late

And a few hours later, invisible observer.

A pregnant woman with sky-blue hair up in a twist talks to the tanner about his grievances, asks if he was aware of the rule about attacking colorful hair people, asks if he was aware that the person he attacked had colorful hair, takes down his family's name and addresses in case any remittances should become available, and briskly sentences him to death. She occasionally resorts to a translator but the translator is not physically present, just receives snippets electronically and phones back translations.

too-early-and-too-late

He moves the tracking charm.

She sees several more cases - apparently she's covering much of Britain and some of Ireland - and does things to a device for a bit and then goes home.

too-early-and-too-late

He goes home too. "What callous horrible - Veritiserum doesn't cause complications with pregnancy, does it -"

Karen Dwimmer

planetarium

"No..."

too-early-and-too-late

"Then we've got a blue to talk to and I just watched her sentence a bunch of people to death for no reason and don't think there's much reason to wait."

Ebele Miranda Swan ༐

chanuphis

"What are you going to ask?"

too-early-and-too-late