While most tale about exotic encounters set our first meeting with extraterrestrial being in the futurity , some industrial plant those other encounters firmly in the distant past tense . What happens when early humans do face - to - space - helmet with beings from another cosmos ?
Here ’s mine :
The news that Gondin was flunking Basic Visitation Protocols came whine over the Home Screen during breakfast . Denzin was disappoint , of row , but he knew better than to screech back . or else , he arched an brow as he stared at his Logos across the table , fingering the edges of his own Ministry of Visitations badge .
“ That class is so theoretical ! ” Gondin whined . “ How am I hypothecate to memorize a list of protocols without any context ? ” Then he speared a putty grub from the pressman . The mock creature twitched thrice upon his fork before Gondin took a meaty snack .
Denzin consider that . “ Very well , ” he said . “ At the head start of the next Ebb Cycle , we ’re going to take you on your first contact lens . How ’s that sound , buddy ? ”
On the daytime they shipped out for Earth , Denzin found Gondin sit behind the pedagogy pod with a group of his classmates . The other students scatter as soon as they saw Denzin , leaving Gondin to blame up the Great Pyramid - shape game pieces on his own .
“ Are you playing Por - rouk ? ” Denzin enquire .
“ Not for money ! ” Gondin said as he pocketed the last piece . “ Just for ad valorem tax - grubs . ”
Gondin pressed his olfactory passageway against the windowpane as Denzin landed their shutter on Earth . “ It ’s so light-green ! ” he take a breath , befog up the plastic .
“ think , this is n’t a holiday planet , ” Denzin said . “ What ’s the first thing we do upon shore ? ”
Gondin pump a clenched fist into the air . “ Scan for sentients ! ”
Denzin grin at his excitement . “ Before that . ”
Gondin think for a moment . “ Check the cloak . ”
Denzin push his chair back from the command cabinet . “ Do the honour ? ” he asked .
They fit through the checklist from Gondin ’s division file . They made certain the cloak was calibrate for the visible spectra of local fauna . They detected a small circle of sentients in a cave half a mile to the East and brief themselves on their biochemistry and level of ethnic development . They unpacked their visitation udder , doubly - checked their paraphernalia , and repacked the bags . Gondin set up a perception filter before they reached the cave , and when the hominid blemish them in spitefulness of the perception filter , Gondin like a shot pulled his mettle jammer and carefully checked the neural readings of each hominid to verify they would n’t remember the brush . All in all , Denzin thought , a successful first meeting . Gondin would be on - raceway to the Ministry of Visitation yet .
But there was one protocol that was n’t on Gondin ’s school leaning , one that every tribulation professional performs instinctively and that no one had ever thought to include on a checklist : empty your pockets . The ship was midway home before Gondin actualise that he was pretermit one of his Por - rouk piece . It must have slipped out of his pocket during his skirmish with the hominids . Gondin resolved not to tell his father about the overlook piece . After all , what conflict could one tiny Great Pyramid make ?
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