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“Erm… Hang on a second” you say. You fumble aroundfor a few awkward moments, getting into your back pack. You haul out your precious notebook, contain the rough draft of the book you have been writing and offer it to the Kaa. The strange alien seems to grow an arm and an hand to accept your gift. Several more organs or limbs or whatever appear on its body, and it flips a few pages examining your book
“Ah!” it says “You find the Kaa annoying do you?”
Uhoh. You had forgotten that you had written that.
(Do you apologize? Turn to page…)
You open your mouth not sure what to say, but before you can say anything, several new mouths open on the Kaa, and it hoots and laughs in delight.
“The is Excellent!” it says, and before you know it, the rest of the Kaa have swarmed over and are passing your notebook excitedly back and forth.
“We came to your world to collect and understand.” The kaa says” wewant to know all the history of the Earth that we can. Its people, its animals, its plants. Your thoughts, your opinions, your dreams, your songs, your beliefs. This book” he holds it up “is a fine gitft, a rare- even unique- artifact of your people. It is a very good addition to our collection. We will pay you well for it!”
And they do. When you and Clarrise return to your village, you have a number of amaxing Kaa gadgets that far out weigh the value of any scavenge you might have found on your own. Among many other things, you have an oddly shaped canteen that fills itself with water made from thin air, a knife that can cut stone and never needs sharpening, and several rare medicins such as asprin and amoxycilin that the kaa assure you will never go bad.
You become an object of envy among your cousins and od admiration among the aunts and uncles. Your story about how you met the Kaa becomes a favorite around every campfire. And you find that you have become a person of no small importance in your family: The Kaa have promised to come back and want to meet with you specifically again and do more trading, next time they do.
But best of all you also carry back home with you your notebook. The Kaa didn’t even want to keep it. They read it several times, copied it once, and said goodbye.
“Ah!” it says “You find the Kaa annoying do you?”
Uhoh. You had forgotten that you had written that.
(Do you apologize? Turn to page…)
You open your mouth not sure what to say, but before you can say anything, several new mouths open on the Kaa, and it hoots and laughs in delight.
“The is Excellent!” it says, and before you know it, the rest of the Kaa have swarmed over and are passing your notebook excitedly back and forth.
“We came to your world to collect and understand.” The kaa says” wewant to know all the history of the Earth that we can. Its people, its animals, its plants. Your thoughts, your opinions, your dreams, your songs, your beliefs. This book” he holds it up “is a fine gitft, a rare- even unique- artifact of your people. It is a very good addition to our collection. We will pay you well for it!”
And they do. When you and Clarrise return to your village, you have a number of amaxing Kaa gadgets that far out weigh the value of any scavenge you might have found on your own. Among many other things, you have an oddly shaped canteen that fills itself with water made from thin air, a knife that can cut stone and never needs sharpening, and several rare medicins such as asprin and amoxycilin that the kaa assure you will never go bad.
You become an object of envy among your cousins and od admiration among the aunts and uncles. Your story about how you met the Kaa becomes a favorite around every campfire. And you find that you have become a person of no small importance in your family: The Kaa have promised to come back and want to meet with you specifically again and do more trading, next time they do.
But best of all you also carry back home with you your notebook. The Kaa didn’t even want to keep it. They read it several times, copied it once, and said goodbye.
The End
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