What an interesting take on evolution. I guess there's some evidence of imprinting controlling genomic regulation, but 'active evolution' really has to have some amazing advantages. What an original concept!
I also can't decide if Nora is the victim here or simply got what was coming...
A great story :) Thanks!
Eh, she's a victim of the circumstances but still got what she had coming.
Whay she had coming? You set her up to die, you did. All she did was to be nice to a lost cephi. Not like she fried them like the other humans.
But initially, she didn't want to help. She despised cephis all her life and treated them like dirt. If the little one hadn't tried so hard, she wouldn't have spent a second thought on why a child is alone in such a hostile city.
If I treat a certain group of people like dirt all my life, does it make me a good person if I help one of them just once?
Sure, Nora could have changed. I initally planned for her to become friends with the cephis. But that wouldn't be realistic, would it?
She despised them all her life. They were creepy moving things, at least that was the norm, there is nothing to say she had at a point come in contact with any to change the notion.
But here she did, she is thinking of work, the hours already counting, her place of work don't look like a friendly one. She needs the salary
Anyways, she got all this in her head. Then this creepy cephi grabs at her ankle, if she was a bad person her first instinct would have been to kick it off, but no she did not. She even thought her ankle would be covered in slime which goes to show she had never had any contact with one before now.
This could happen to anyone, we all affix a stereotype for people from a partictular place until there is a chance for meeting and our notions change.
She even listens to it, thinks to herself "well, its just a baby" . Not her fault she is in that body. See, she doesn't totally discriminate
Then she goes on to help, she would be late to her work. Though it doesn't reflect on her salary if she is early.
Anyways, it is just not fair that you set her up to die. Not fair.
Maybe. But how boring would stories be if they were fair?