A terrible thought suddenly struck me: what if they are asexual? With the slight difference that I was not Noah, the helmsman of the Ark, but a mere animal. I told Laura about my hypothesis, and I saw that she was stumped. I hurried to taste it: it was sweet, quite pleasant, and next to me a rather large monkey was bending down to taste it, whose curious look did not please me at all. From his end to the top edge of the tanks was less than three feet. “Only one thing we can do!” I replied sure though I suspected how she would react to my proposal. There were two huge tanks, and when we got closer we saw that water was flowing from one of them. I picked up a branch and, using it as a club, hit the monkey on the temple. She looked around indecisively, as if searching for a bench to sit on. or crocodiles.”
I took her hand and we headed toward the translucent wall in the distance. It was like a milky screen, letting light through, but no image. Somewhere off in the distance, something like a translucent wall loomed around where we stood.
