​ Humans are Weird – Take One For the Team


“I really don’t think that the differences in human and Shatar biology were that different,” Second Father said as he bent his triangular head down to inspect Third Sisters’s frill.
“That internal skeleton of theirs does provide them with impressive strength,” First Grandfather reminded him, “or so I’ve heard. All that calcium tide up in their bodies for their entire live! So expensive! Will Eight Granddaughter need more zinc to cover her main veins do you think?”
“No, I think the lines are thick enough,” Second Father said, making sure to set his antenna in a firm but respectful curl.
First Grandfather was far from too interfering but Second Father had found that solid boundaries, set early prevented Grandfathers, and even some officious Uncles, from nibbling away at his duties. First Grandfather clicked in acceptance and turned his attention back to the sphere that had inspired his first inquiry. The exterior had been harvested from one of the massive, dangerous herbivores that the humans insisted were critical to their agriculture. These fragments of mammalian outer membrane had been shaped and stitched together around some kind of bark core wound round with fibers of some sap-like substance. First Father had spent more than one delightful day dissecting one of the them with the more technically leaning Sisters and Cousins.
“They call it a softball,” Second Father said to First Grandfather in an aside as he applied the final stroke of protective oil to Third Sisters’s frill.
“Curious,” First Grandfather said, probing the sphere with a finger. “It is not at all soft.”
“The Second Mother of the human hive to our north explained that it is a comparative name,” he said. “It is not nearly as hard as the standard ‘baseball’.”
“That follows,”First Grandfather agreed. “Still it seems rather unsafe.”
“I will not be letting my daughters play with the humans,” Second Father informed him. “I had my own Third Sister arrange a mimic game up under the scrub trees on the dunes. We can’t risk prolonged solar exposure anyway and the human First Sister assured me that the softballs cannot reach us so high up. Now trail along daughters!”
There was a series of happy clicks as the vines around him rustled and the mobile offspring of the hive scampered out in pairs. First and Second Sisters had carefully applied their own solar protection and sported neat applications of zinc and oils. They had had less success with Fourth Sister and First Brother and both Second Father and First Grandfather had to mind the curl of their antenna to hide their amusement. The splattered layers of zinc would be more than protective enough to prevent their fragile frills from being scored by the solar radiation and there was at least an entire bottle of oil to seal it in.
“That certainly looks sufficient,” First Grandfather said, and couldn’t quite hide the amused clicks in his voice.
Fortunately the little ones were focused on escaping the garden as fast as the could.
“Mind the sand!” Second Father warned them as they darted down the trail towards the beach.
The older Sisters curled their antenna in agreement but didn’t noticeably alter their speed or trajectory. The light of the sun shown down warmly on them and already Second Father’s antenna were tingling with the sounds of the humans who had already gathered on the shore.
“They can really absorb that much solar radiation without hurting their membranes?” First Grandfather asked.
“So they say,” Second Father Confirmed as they drew up to the wild clearing under the twisted red branches of the trees that served as their meeting place.
A solid thwack sounded from the beach were the humans were striking the balls with the hardened wooden clubs and despite being well aware that they were in the safe zone Second Father couldn’t quite resist a twitch as the yellow sphere arced up in their direction before falling to the sand with a soft thump.
“And the sand does not abrade their little feet?” First Grandfather demanded looking with clear distress in his pseudo-frill a the immature humans who were scampering around with no protective coatings on their little feet.
“I must trust that their own Fathers know what is best for them,” Second Father said, but the tight curl of his antenna confessed his own distress at the thought of the tiny human toes scraping over the fragments of shell again and again.
First Sister and Second Sister had decided that the ‘softball’ was much to heavy to toss between them so they were rolling it around on the ground. Second Father was laying out the nectar he had brought when a particular loud thwack of the club striking the ball drew his attention to the humans just as the ball drove forward directly towards the smallest human. Before he could react the sphere slammed into the small human’s chest with a resounding thunk. There was one horrible moment were everything stood still and then the child slowly collapsed backward onto the sand.
“Second Cousin!” First Sister cried out, her frill flaring with panic as she darted down the sand dune towards the humans.
“First Grandfather!” Second Father snapped out. “Stay with the little ones!”
He raced after First Sister and Second Sister who had followed her to their friend. By the time he caught up with them they were bent over the fallen Second Cousin who was writhing on the sand clutching her hands to her chest. Somehow the ball had not caved in her abdomen.
“She can’t breath!” First Sister called out, clutching his hand.
“Her Father is here now,” Second Father said soothingly, pulling First Sister back to give the human Father more room.
Strangely the human male did not look overly concerned. He dropped down to his knees beside the child and began to murmur to the small human.
“Hey Baby Girl,” the human said. “Can you get up? Just breathe, just breathe.”
“How do you expect her to breath with her lungs crushed?” Second Father burst out before he could stop himself.
First Sister who knew more than a little human gave a panicked trill and the human Father glanced up at him with an astonished look.
“Her lungs are fine!” the human said with a laugh. “She just got the wind knocked out of her!”
Just then the human child arched back and drew in a great gasp of air. Her breathing quickly went from ragged to regular and she scramble up to her knees.
“That’s it Baby Girl!” the human Father said patting the child on the back. “Walk it off now!”
The human Father glance over at the clearly distressed First Sister and Second Sister.
“Hey First Sister!” he called out. “You you escort Betty up around the dune gardens so we can keep playing down here and she’ll be safe?”
“Yes, I would like that,” First Sister said with a quick glance at Second Father for approval. “If it will help her.”
“I’m fine,” the little Second Cousin wheezed out. “I just need to walk it off.”
The three young ones staggered off together and Second Father tilted his head up at the towering form of the human. The human Father smiled down at him and rested a massive hand on his shoulder in what was supposed to be a comforting gesture.
“She’s fine Second Father,” the human said. “Really. Just had the wind knocked out of her.”
Just then another of the human’s children yelped something about the tide approaching and the human ran off to see what was the matter. Second Father stared after him, and then up the trail at the clearly recovering human child. The sound of the sphere impacting her chest replayed in his mind and he slowly shook his head and turned to reassure First Grandfather, though he wasn’t sure exactly what he was going to tell him.  

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 Humans are Weird – Slap It


“While there are toxic minerals present in this water you will find that the concentrations are far too low to-”
The pleasant droning of Dropssuddenly’s voice was the perfect background to their day of relaxation in the surging surf of the campus beaches. Flipsover listened with a few trailing appendages as he happily sifted the majority of his appendages through the rough silica substrate while the surf pushed and tugged at his center of gravity. Thick, all but inedible algae leafs slapped against his side and tiny crustations swarmed around him.
The thick atmosphere filtered the lights above to pulsating blues and violets laced through with faint greens. The silica rich sand caught that like and reflected, refracted, and radiated back wave upon wave of soothing, healing light. The Marine Biology College domes rose behind them, gleaming with their exterior solar collectors. Around these spread the dense grasslands of the largest island on the planet. Swimming through this riot of glittering colors were the towering forms of the humans, for once revealing the majority of their outer membranes. Their glowing stripes were faded in the brilliance of the solar day of course but the warmth of the atmosphere filtered sunlight gave the subdued stripes a healthful look that Flipsover had never observed before.
“This has already been on of the most informative and delightful rest days I have spent! Flipsover couldn’t help touching onto the elder Undulate who hardly seemed like he would disagree.
However Dropssuddenly had noted a creature in the water that illustrated the point he was making about mineral balance quite nicely and began to eagerly chase it for demonstration purposes. The little thing, barely an appendage-width from leading to lagging end, moved quite well and apparently did not want to be captured by either of them. They took off after their goal at first with vigor, then with speed, then with the steady endurance Dropssuddenly tried to teach in all of his field classes. By the time Flipsover had maneuvered his smaller mass to catch the wriggling creature that seemed to be all lacy and fragile membranes they were much further down the beach than they had been.
The curves of the sand and grasslands hid the College buildings but recreating humans still moved along and spread out over the beach. Flipsover thoughtfully left at least one appendage to attend to what Dropssuddenly was saying about the creature while he watched a pair of clusters of humans seemingly flinging themselves and their limbs into the air at random while some sort of drone flew around smashing into their clenched ‘fists’ or open ‘hands’. It took Flipsover all of a wave pulse to completely lose interest in what Dropssuddenly was saying and it took Dropssuddenly another several wave-pulses to realize he had lost his student.
“As impossible as it seems,” Dropssuddenly said with a very amused set to his appendages. “That drone has no antigrav feature in it.”
“How can that be?” Flipsover demanded, idly noting that Dropssuddenly had released the creature back into the water. “It has no flight surfaces at all! Or even gripping surfaces for a human with their stubby gripping appendage. It is nothing but a sphere on the exterior!”
“And it is noting but a well engineered sphere in the interior as well,” Dropssuddenly replied coming up to him and placing a restraining appendage on him when Flipsover would have moved forward for a better view. “Note how dry the sand is here, and note how disturbed it is. This is their designated play surface and if you shuffle a bit here-”
Dropssuddenly demonstrated a quick shuffle with his primary gripping appendages that revealed a long warning tape that had gotten buried in the sand.
“Here, aid me in shifting the sand to make this visible again. A barefooted human is no real danger to us of course but it is never pleasant to be stepped on,” the older Undulate went on.
As soon as they started resetting the warning tape a few humans who had been observing the writhing humans rose from their reclining positions and came to help with resetting the tape.
“How does the drone stay up with no flight surfaces and no antigrav?” Flipsover asked once they had found a good work rhythm.
“It is simply a synthetic envelope shaped into a sphere,” Dropssudenly explained. “The game goes like this. One human rests the sphere in the ‘palm’ of their ‘hand’ and lets gravity hold it there.”
Dropssuddenly paused to let that information soak in and Flipsover gave a flick of understanding. Their ‘palms’ were a large enough gripping surface he supposed.
“Then the human strikes the sphere into a downward opening parabola with his other hand,” Dropssuddenly went on and again Flipsover gave the flick of understanding.
“On the other side of the net the opposing team of humans moves into position to prevent the sphere from striking the sand. They may only use their cranial surfaces or their gripped appendages to give it enough momentum in the appropriate direction, angle, and velocity so that the sphere returns to the humans on the other side. They repeat this until the system fails and the sphere touches the sand.”
Flipsover was sure, certain that he had heard every tone the mentor had sounded and seen every gesture the mentor had used. Still the game he described made no sense.
“The humans are using the spatial reasoning and binocular vision to track the sphere,” Dropssuddenly explained in slow patient tones, “like we were doing to catch that sea slug.”
Flipsover felt himself tremble in awe as the concept slowly soaked in.
“But the slug is so slow and deliberate naturally,” Flipsover said in a cautious tone, “and it was floating in water. The sphere the humans are using is being accelerated by gravity through gas…”
He realized with a tremble of excitement that what he had taken for random writhing was in fact no such thing.
“The humans are deliberately moving like that?” Flipsover demanded.
“That they are,” Dropssuddenly replied with a gentle pat, “that they are! And these humans have hardly any competitive feeling in them. They only do this for pleasure. Wait until you see Human Friend Sledgehammer Sally lead her pod! You will not be able to track the motion of the sphere without special equipment it moves so fast.”
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 Humans are Weird – I Swear I Have a Goal


The rustling of the canopy leaved drifted down to caress antennas and smooth wrinkled frills. First Father shifted the basket on his arm and bent to examine a brown spot on an otherwise unremarkable fruit. The dim light this deep in a garden that was generations older than even the eldest grandmother remembered was hardly enough to give him a clear look so he reached into the basket for his light. He set it to cycle through the spectrum about a hundred nanometers at at time and played it over the fruit. He gave a frustrated click as the light failed to reveal anything definite. He supposed he should contact Second Grandfather if the capricious old one could be contacted. It grew harder with every passing year. First Father set the light back in his basket and was pondering taking the yet, unripe fruit in to his Third Sister. However this strand of thought was sent off in a spiral when the rustling of tiny feat through leaves attracted his attention.
First Daughter and Second Cousin came scrambling along the garden path as fast as they could. First Daughter had her frill out in a very pronounced sign of indignation but her still short antenna were flicking with excitement. Second Cousin let her frill droop around her neck and her antenna were curled with worry. First Father deliberately held back a chitter of amusement as he waited for them to come up to him. They dared under his legs, they were already to big to fit a pair of cousins under there and Second Cousin politely let herself be shoved out and stetted for clinging to one of his hind legs.
“Father!” First Daughter burst out.
“First Father,” Second Cousin corrected her.
First Daughter flicked her antenna at her cousin in a warning gesture but accepted the correction.
“First Father,” she said. “One of the humans is being-”
She paused and carefully worked her mandibles over the long word.
“-inefficient!” she declared with a happy sideways skitter.
First Father really had to struggle to keep the amusement out of his voice, and knew he didn’t quite keep it out of his frill as he replied.
“Well that is very serious,” he said in the gravest tone he could manage with his head angled down at their eager antenna.
First Daughter bobbed up and down in agreement.
“He is just wandering around the outer garden!” she went on. “Just holding a flower in his hand, and it’s all wilted, and it’s getting more wilted, and he might step on somebody-”
First Father was certain she would go on describing the scene until her thorax compressed and he shook out his frill. Both of the little ones leapt away and stared up at him expectantly. He flicked his antenna in a request for them to show him and they skittered off down the path and he followed them, arranging the basket on his arm. They reached the edge of the inner gardens and First Sister excitedly inclined her little antenna to the human on the other side of the vines.
First Father licked his eyes as the facets adjusted to the brilliant light outside of the dense canopy. There was a human out there. A female he thought, as his vision cleared he recognized her. Mary Beth was a botanist who had come to study the interactions of a truly established generational garden in an alien ecosystem. He and his children had gotten quite used to seeing her bustling about the garden preforming her research, usually very efficiently. So First Father understood why First Daughter was discomforted by Mary Beth’s current behavior.
The human held a wilted flowering stalk in one hand and was directing her binocular eyes towards the towering form of one of the native trees that grew outside of the garden. Her arms were held in a nearly Shatar posture; bent at the elbows at nearly right angles. Her whole body twitched and she took three uncertain steps towards the main guest building she was staying in, then she half turned and took five of her lumbering human steps towards the tables First Father’s sisters had laid out for her work, finally she turned back and stepped to her original position and stood swaying with her entire body radiating uncertainty.
“Mary Beth?” First Father called out, feeling quite concerned now.
He was fairly certain that the solar radiation even outside of the garden was neither dense nor intense enough to cause sun stroke in the rugged humans, and her membrane was not radiation flushed, but one had to make sure with these things.
The human started at the sound of his voice and her head snapped around.
“I have a goal!” she declared in reasonable Shatar. “I swear!”
“Of course you do dear,” First Father said soothingly, “do you need me to come out and help you achieve that goal?”
“No, no,” Mary Beth assured him as she turned and now strode confidentially towards the work tables, “I’m good now, the brain just got stuck in neutral a bit. It happens.”
“Should we spy on her?” First Daughter asked, her antenna flicking eagerly.
“That won’t be necessary,” First Father said reaching down to stroke the back of her skull. “You can come help me check the fruit where I was for those odd spots.”
The two disappointed children followed him back to the garden while First Father sent a note to First Mother to research what the human meany by their brain getting stuck in neutral.
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