Today was one of the hard days.
Well, the plant experiments were fine. They've been growing great ever since she figured out how to filter all the green stuff from the river that killed them. She still hasn't made much progress on figuring out what the green stuff actually is, or why it kills the plants—she thinks that it'll be easier once she's able to get a really close look at the parts of the plants—but that can wait.
The thing that made today hard was other people. At least, she thinks they're people like her and the other one-like-her. In a lot of ways, they look more like animals, and she still isn't sure why they can't understand each other when they speak. That's what speaking is for, isn't it? For people to communicate things even when they can't [link]?
Maybe they're… pretty smart animals that are still figuring out how to speak? Sometimes the things they say sound almost like the words she knows.
She hopes the animal-people figure out how to speak soon. No matter how she tries to teach him, the other one-like-her always panics and never even tries. She's not sure he even understands her when she speaks.
(She can't even be sure he understands her when she [links] him. Maybe he just likes how it feels.)
The animal-people panic when she speaks to them too. On a good day, they run away. On a bad day, they attack her. She's always managed to get away and on a couple of occasions to successfully defend herself, but… the animal-people have ones-like-them.
She wonders if she could make another one-like-her…
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