Tue May 13, 2014 11:44 am
If only it had eyes, a part of her thought, instead of visual perceptors as yet unstudied. No matter how horrible or bloodshot, at least you could connect with an eye. The windows of the soul, she’d read somewhere.
The alien had no eyes and, quite likely, no soul.
(Dean Foster)
The world has lost a Great Old One.
There is a fixed amount of intelligence on the planet, and the population keeps growing :(