"I"m just a person, like you," she said to the tiny ones, letting her vocalization shape her thought. "I"m just passing through. I hope I didn"t step on anyone."
Leave us alone, animal
Obviously they had been doing damage as they tramped heedlessly across this planet! The best thing they could do for these people was to get away and let them repair the damage. Suddenly Colene felt awesomely responsible.
Yet was it any different back home on Earth? All her life she had walked without much regard for the tiny plants and bugs that might be under her feet. Didn"t ants care whether they got squished? Now that it was people getting squished, she felt horribly guilty. This was evidently an animus planet, but that did not mean it was right to crush their people.
"I"m sorry," she said. A tear f
