And that’s when it occurred to me to turn the prank on them and take the bookworm to see her flowers without any payment. Instead, I will say a few things about the behind-the-scenes aspects of these races that are less well known to the general public, but which are, after all, part of their very substance. But these were details of interest only to scientists. Maybe not even that.”
The man smiled and reassured me:
“On my first run, I only traveled far enough to meet my grandmother if she’d been around Target Rock.”
We both laughed at his joke, he heartily and I more out of politeness. Thinking of Eliza’s frightened eyes the moment I abandoned her in the Jurassic, I agreed and only then wondered why on earth one of their specialists wasn’t making the trip. The second group agreed that life had been inseminated from the outside onto Earth, but argued that this didn’t happen by accident, but was directed by an extraterrestrial intelligence that was in the business of inseminating all the life-breeding planets in the universe.
