At breakfast, Komov was very talkative. He looked like he didn’t sleep a wink; his eyes were red, cheeks sunken, but he was cheerful and excited. He was filling up on strong tea and telling us his preliminary findings and conclusions.
According to him, there was no doubt that the locals have modified the boy’s organism in the most radical ways. They seemed to be daring yet knowledgeable experimenters: they have altered his physiology and, to some extent, his anatomy, they have expanded the active area of his brain and gave him new physiological mechanisms that cannot be developed with the science we possess. The goal of those anatomic and physiological modifications was most likely trivial: the locals simply attempted to adapt the helpless human baby to the inhuman living conditions o
