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They are people. +I recognize people and whether I am going to like this person or that +person by something in the way they move and how they get excited when +they talk; and I know that I like these people in a motherly sort of +way. You have to feel motherly toward them, I guess. + +They all remind me of Ronny, a medical student I knew once. He was small +and round and eager. You had to like him, but you couldn't take him very +seriously. He was a pacifist; he wrote poetry and pulled it out to read +aloud at ill-timed moments; and he stuttered when he talked too fast. + +They are like that, all fright and gentleness. + + * * * * * + +I am not the only survivor--they have explained that--but I am the first +they found, and the least damaged, the one they have chosen to represent +the human race to them. They stand around my bed and answer questions, +and are nice to me when I argue with them. + +All in a group they look half-way between a delegation of nations and an +ark, one of each, big and small, thick and thin, four arms or wings, all +shapes and colors in fur and skin and feathers. + +I can picture them in their UN of the Universe, making speeches in their +different languages, listening patiently without understanding each +other's different problems, boring each other and being too polite to +yawn. + +They are polite, so polite I almost feel they are afraid of me, and I +want to reassure them. + +But I talk as if I were angry. I can't help it, because if things had +only been a little different ... "Why couldn't you have come sooner? Why +couldn't you have tried to stop it before it happened, or at least come +sooner, afterward...?" + +If they had come sooner to where the workers of the Nevada power pile +starved slowly behind their protecting walls of lead--if they had looked +sooner for survivors of the dust with which the nations of the world had +slain each other--George Craig would be alive. He died before they came. +He was my co-worker, and I loved him. + +We had gone down together, passing door by door the automatic safeguards +of the plant, which were supposed to protect the people on the outside +from the radioactive danger from the inside--but the danger of a failure +of politics was far more real than the danger of failure in the science +of the power pile, and that had not been calculated by the builders. We +were far underground when the first radioactivity in the air outside had +shut all the heavy, lead-shielded automatic doors between us and the +outside. + +We were safe. And we starved there. + +"Why didn't you come sooner?" I wonder if they know or guess how I feel. +My questions are not questions, but I have to ask them. He is dead. I +don't mean to reproach them--they look well meaning and kindly--but I +feel as if, somehow, knowing why it happened could make it stop, could +let me turn the clock back and make it happen differently. If I could +have signaled them, so they would have come just a little sooner. + +They look at one another, turning their funny-face heads uneasily, +moving back and forth, but no one will answer. + +The world is dead.... George is dead, that thin, pathetic creature with +the bones showing through his skin that he was when we sat still at the +last with our hands touching, thinking there were people outside who had +forgotten us, hoping they would remember. We didn't guess that the world +was dead, blanketed in radiating dust outside. Politics had killed it. + +These beings around me, they had been watching, seeing what was going to +happen to our world, listening to our radios from their small +settlements on the other planets of the Solar System. They had seen the +doom of war coming. They represented stellar civilizations of great +power and technology, and with populations that would have made ours +seem a small village; they were stronger than we were, and yet they had +done nothing. + +"Why didn't you stop us? You could have stopped us." + + * * * * * + +A rabbity one who is closer than the others backs away, gesturing +politely that he is giving room for someone else to speak, but he looks +guilty and will not look at me with his big round eyes. I still feel +weak and dizzy. It is hard to think, but I feel as if they are hiding a +secret. + +A doelike one hesitates and comes closer to my bed. "We discussed it ... +we voted...." It talks through a microphone in its helmet with a soft +lisping accent that I think comes from the shape of its mouth. It has a +muzzle and very soft, dainty, long nibbling lips like a deer that +nibbles on twigs and buds. + +"We were afraid," adds one who looks like a bear. + +"To us the future was very terrible," says one who looks as if it +might have descended from some sort of large bird like a penguin. "So +much-- Your weapons were very terrible." + +Now they all talk at once, crowding about my bed, apologizing. "So much +killing. It hurt to know about. But your people didn't seem to mind." + +"We were afraid." + +"And in your fiction," the doelike one lisped, "I saw plays from your +amusement machines which said that the discovery of beings in space +would save you from war, not because you would let us bring friendship +and teach peace, but because the human race would unite in _hatred_ of +the outsiders. They would forget their hatred of each other only in a +new and more terrible war with us." Its voice breaks in a squeak and it +turns its face away from me. + +"You were about to come out into space. We were wondering how to hide!" +That is a quick-talking one, as small as a child. He looks as if he +might have descended from a bat--gray silken fur on his pointed face, +big night-seeing eyes, and big sensitive ears, with a humped shape on +the back of his air suit which might be folded wings. "We were trying to +conceal where we had built, so that humans would not guess we were near +and look for us." + +They are ashamed of their fear, for because of it they broke all the +kindly laws of their civilizations, restrained all the pity and +gentleness I see in them, and let us destroy ourselves. + +I am beginning to feel more awake and to see more clearly. And I am +beginning to feel sorry for them, for I can see why they are afraid. + +They are herbivores. I remember the meaning of shapes. In the paths +of evolution there are grass eaters and berry eaters and root diggers. +Each has its functional shape of face and neck--and its wide, +startled-looking eyes to see and run away from the hunters. In all their +racial history they have never killed to eat. They have been killed and +eaten, or run away, and they evolved to intelligence by selection. Those +lived who succeeded in running away from carnivores like lions, hawks, +and men. + + * * * * * + +I look up, and they turn their eyes and heads in quick embarrassed +motion, not meeting my eye. The rabbity one is nearest and I reach out +to touch him, pleased because I am growing strong enough now to move my +arms. He looks at me and I ask the question: "Are there any +carnivores--flesh eaters--among you?" + +He hesitates, moving his lips as if searching for tactful words. "We +have never found any that were civilized. We have frequently found them +in caves and tents fighting each other. Sometimes we find them fighting +each other with the ruins of cities around them, but they are always +savages." + +The bearlike one said heavily, "It might be that carnivores evolve more +rapidly and tend toward intelligence more often, for we find radioactive +planets without life, and places like the place you call your asteroid +belt, where a planet should be--but there are only scattered fragments +of planet, pieces that look as if a planet had been blown apart. We +think that usually ..." He looked at me uncertainly, beginning to +fumble his words. "We think ..." + +[Illustration] + +"Yours is the only carnivorous race we have found that was--civilized, +that had a science and was going to come out into space," the doelike +one interrupted softly. "We were afraid." + +They seem to be apologizing. + +The rabbity one, who seems to be chosen as the leader in speaking to me, +says, "We will give you anything you want. Anything we are able to give +you." + +They mean it. We survivors will be privileged people, with a key to all +the cities, everything free. Their sincerity is wonderful, but puzzling. +Are they trying to atone for the thing they feel was a crime; that they +allowed humanity to murder itself, and lost to the Galaxy the richness +of a race? Is this why they are so generous? + +Perhaps then they will help the race to get started again. The records +are not lost. The few survivors can eventually repopulate Earth. Under +the tutelage of these peaceable races, without the stress of division +into nations, we will flower as a race. No children of mine to the +furthest descendant will ever make war again. This much of a lesson we +have learned. + +These timid beings do not realize how much humanity has wanted peace. +They do not know how reluctantly we were forced and trapped by old +institutions and warped tangles of politics to which we could see no +answer. We are not naturally savage. We are not savage when approached +as individuals. Perhaps they know this, but are afraid anyhow, +instinctive fear rising up from the blood of their hunted, frightened +forebears. + + * * * * * + +The human race will be a good partner to these races. Even recovering +from starvation as I am, I can feel in myself an energy they do not +have. The savage in me and my race is a creative thing, for in those who +have been educated as I was it is a controlled savagery which attacks +and destroys only problems and obstacles, never people. Any human raised +outside of the political traditions that the race inherited from its +bloodstained childhood would be as friendly and ready for friendship as +I am toward these beings. I could never hurt these pleasant, overgrown +bunnies and squirrels. + +"We will do everything we can to make up for ... we will try to help," +says the bunny, stumbling over the English, but civilized and cordial +and kind. + +I sit up suddenly, reaching out impulsively to shake his hand. Suddenly +frightened he leaps back. All of them step back, glancing behind them as +though making sure of the avenue of escape. Their big luminous eyes +widen and glance rapidly from me to the doors, frightened. + +They must think I am about to leap out of bed and pounce on them and eat +them. I am about to laugh and reassure them, about to say that all I +want from them is friendship, when I feel a twinge in my abdomen from +the sudden motion. I touch it with one hand under the bedclothes. + +There is the scar of an incision there, almost healed. An operation. The +weakness I am recovering from is more than the weakness of starvation. + +For only half a second I do not understand; then I see why they looked +ashamed. + +They voted the murder of a race. + +All the human survivors found have been made sterile. There will be no +more humans after we die. + +I am frozen, one hand still extended to grasp the hand of the rabbity +one, my eyes still searching his expression, reassuring words still half +formed. + +There will be time for anger or grief later, for now, in this instant, I +can understand. They are probably quite right. + +We were carnivores. + +I know, because, at this moment of hatred, I could kill them all. + + --G. A. MORRIS + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Galaxy Science Fiction_ October 1953. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and + typographical errors have been corrected without note. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Carnivore, by G. A. 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A. MORRIS</h2> + +<p class="hd1"><b>Illustrated by BURCHARD</b></p> + +<div class="bk2"><p><big><b><i>Why were they apologetic? It +wasn't their fault that they +came to Earth much too late.</i></b></big></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">The</span> beings stood around +my bed in air suits like ski suits, +with globes over their +heads like upside-down fishbowls. +It was all like a masquerade, with +odd costumes and funny masks.</p> + +<p>I know that the masks are +their faces, but I argue with them +and find I think as if I am arguing +with humans behind the +masks. They are people. I recognize +people and whether I am +going to like this person or that +person by something in the way +they move and how they get excited +when they talk; and I know +that I like these people in a +motherly sort of way. You have +to feel motherly toward them, I +guess.</p> + +<p>They all remind me of Ronny, +a medical student I knew once. +He was small and round and +eager. You had to like him, but +you couldn't take him very seriously. +He was a pacifist; he wrote +poetry and pulled it out to read +aloud at ill-timed moments; and +he stuttered when he talked too +fast.</p> + +<p>They are like that, all fright +and gentleness.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">I am</span> not the only survivor—they +have explained that—but +I am the first they found, +and the least damaged, the one +they have chosen to represent the +human race to them. They stand +around my bed and answer questions, +and are nice to me when I +argue with them.</p> + +<p>All in a group they look half-way +between a delegation of nations +and an ark, one of each, big +and small, thick and thin, four +arms or wings, all shapes and +colors in fur and skin and feathers.</p> + +<p>I can picture them in their +UN of the Universe, making +speeches in their different languages, +listening patiently without +understanding each other's +different problems, boring each +other and being too polite to +yawn.</p> + +<p>They are polite, so polite I almost +feel they are afraid of me, +and I want to reassure them.</p> + +<p>But I talk as if I were angry. +I can't help it, because if things +had only been a little different ... "Why +couldn't you have come +sooner? Why couldn't you have +tried to stop it before it happened, +or at least come sooner, afterward...?"</p> + +<p>If they had come sooner to +where the workers of the Nevada +power pile starved slowly behind +their protecting walls of lead—if +they had looked sooner for +survivors of the dust with which +the nations of the world had slain +each other—George Craig would +be alive. He died before they +came. He was my co-worker, and +I loved him.</p> + +<p>We had gone down together, +passing door by door the automatic +safeguards of the plant, +which were supposed to protect +the people on the outside from +the radioactive danger from the +inside—but the danger of a +failure of politics was far more +real than the danger of failure +in the science of the power pile, +and that had not been calculated +by the builders. We were far underground +when the first radioactivity +in the air outside had +shut all the heavy, lead-shielded +automatic doors between us and +the outside.</p> + +<p>We were safe. And we starved +there.</p> + +<p>"Why didn't you come sooner?" +I wonder if they know or guess +how I feel. My questions are not +questions, but I have to ask them. +He is dead. I don't mean to reproach +them—they look well +meaning and kindly—but I feel +as if, somehow, knowing why it +happened could make it stop, +could let me turn the clock back +and make it happen differently. If +I could have signaled them, so +they would have come just a little +sooner.</p> + +<p>They look at one another, turning +their funny-face heads uneasily, +moving back and forth, +but no one will answer.</p> + +<p>The world is dead.... George +is dead, that thin, pathetic creature +with the bones showing +through his skin that he was when +we sat still at the last with our +hands touching, thinking there +were people outside who had forgotten +us, hoping they would remember. +We didn't guess that +the world was dead, blanketed in +radiating dust outside. Politics +had killed it.</p> + +<p>These beings around me, they +had been watching, seeing what +was going to happen to our world, +listening to our radios from their +small settlements on the other +planets of the Solar System. They +had seen the doom of war coming. +They represented stellar civilizations +of great power and technology, +and with populations that +would have made ours seem a +small village; they were stronger +than we were, and yet they had +done nothing.</p> + +<p>"Why didn't you stop us? You +could have stopped us."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">A rabbity</span> one who is closer +than the others backs away, +gesturing politely that he is giving +room for someone else to +speak, but he looks guilty and +will not look at me with his big +round eyes. I still feel weak and +dizzy. It is hard to think, but I +feel as if they are hiding a secret.</p> + +<p>A doelike one hesitates and +comes closer to my bed. "We discussed +it ... we voted...." It +talks through a microphone in +its helmet with a soft lisping accent +that I think comes from the +shape of its mouth. It has a muzzle +and very soft, dainty, long +nibbling lips like a deer that nibbles +on twigs and buds.</p> + +<p>"We were afraid," adds one +who looks like a bear.</p> + +<p>"To us the future was very terrible," +says one who looks as if it +might have descended from some +sort of large bird like a penguin. +"So much— Your weapons were +very terrible."</p> + +<p>Now they all talk at once, +crowding about my bed, apologizing. +"So much killing. It hurt +to know about. But your people +didn't seem to mind."</p> + +<p>"We were afraid."</p> + +<p>"And in your fiction," the doelike +one lisped, "I saw plays from +your amusement machines which +said that the discovery of beings +in space would save you from +war, not because you would let +us bring friendship and teach +peace, but because the human +race would unite in <i>hatred</i> of the +outsiders. They would forget their +hatred of each other only in a +new and more terrible war with +us." Its voice breaks in a squeak +and it turns its face away from +me.</p> + +<p>"You were about to come out +into space. We were wondering +how to hide!" That is a quick-talking +one, as small as a child. +He looks as if he might have +descended from a bat—gray +silken fur on his pointed face, big +night-seeing eyes, and big sensitive +ears, with a humped shape +on the back of his air suit which +might be folded wings. "We were +trying to conceal where we had +built, so that humans would not +guess we were near and look for +us."</p> + +<p>They are ashamed of their fear, +for because of it they broke all +the kindly laws of their civilizations, +restrained all the pity and +gentleness I see in them, and let +us destroy ourselves.</p> + +<p>I am beginning to feel more +awake and to see more clearly. +And I am beginning to feel sorry +for them, for I can see why they +are afraid.</p> + +<p>They are herbivores. I remember +the meaning of shapes. In the +paths of evolution there are grass +eaters and berry eaters and root +diggers. Each has its functional +shape of face and neck—and its +wide, startled-looking eyes to see +and run away from the hunters. +In all their racial history they +have never killed to eat. They +have been killed and eaten, or +run away, and they evolved to +intelligence by selection. Those +lived who succeeded in running +away from carnivores like lions, +hawks, and men.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">I look</span> up, and they turn their +eyes and heads in quick embarrassed +motion, not meeting my +eye. The rabbity one is nearest +and I reach out to touch him, +pleased because I am growing +strong enough now to move my +arms. He looks at me and I ask +the question: "Are there any +carnivores—flesh eaters—among +you?"</p> + +<p>He hesitates, moving his lips +as if searching for tactful words. +"We have never found any that +were civilized. We have frequently +found them in caves and tents +fighting each other. Sometimes +we find them fighting each other +with the ruins of cities around +them, but they are always savages."</p> + +<p>The bearlike one said heavily, +"It might be that carnivores +evolve more rapidly and tend +toward intelligence more often, +for we find radioactive planets +without life, and places like the +place you call your asteroid belt, +where a planet should be—but +there are only scattered fragments +of planet, pieces that look as if a +planet had been blown apart. We +think that usually ..." He looked +at me uncertainly, beginning to +fumble his words. "We think ..."</p> + +<div class="figr"><img src="images/001.png" width="346" height="500" alt="" title="" /></div> + +<p>"Yours is the only carnivorous +race we have found that was—civilized, +that had a science and +was going to come out into +space," the doelike one interrupted +softly. "We were afraid."</p> + +<p>They seem to be apologizing.</p> + +<p>The rabbity one, who seems to +be chosen as the leader in speaking +to me, says, "We will give you +anything you want. Anything we +are able to give you."</p> + +<p>They mean it. We survivors +will be privileged people, with a +key to all the cities, everything +free. Their sincerity is wonderful, +but puzzling. Are they trying to +atone for the thing they feel was +a crime; that they allowed humanity +to murder itself, and lost +to the Galaxy the richness of a +race? Is this why they are so +generous?</p> + +<p>Perhaps then they will help the +race to get started again. The +records are not lost. The few survivors +can eventually repopulate +Earth. Under the tutelage of +these peaceable races, without the +stress of division into nations, we +will flower as a race. No children +of mine to the furthest descendant +will ever make war again. This +much of a lesson we have learned.</p> + +<p>These timid beings do not realize +how much humanity has +wanted peace. They do not know +how reluctantly we were forced +and trapped by old institutions +and warped tangles of politics to +which we could see no answer. +We are not naturally savage. We +are not savage when approached +as individuals. Perhaps they +know this, but are afraid anyhow, +instinctive fear rising up from the +blood of their hunted, frightened +forebears.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">The</span> human race will be a good +partner to these races. Even +recovering from starvation as I +am, I can feel in myself an energy +they do not have. The savage in +me and my race is a creative +thing, for in those who have been +educated as I was it is a controlled +savagery which attacks +and destroys only problems and +obstacles, never people. Any human +raised outside of the political +traditions that the race +inherited from its bloodstained +childhood would be as friendly +and ready for friendship as I am +toward these beings. I could never +hurt these pleasant, overgrown +bunnies and squirrels.</p> + +<p>"We will do everything we can +to make up for ... we will try to +help," says the bunny, stumbling +over the English, but civilized +and cordial and kind.</p> + +<p>I sit up suddenly, reaching out +impulsively to shake his hand. +Suddenly frightened he leaps +back. All of them step back, +glancing behind them as though +making sure of the avenue of +escape. Their big luminous eyes +widen and glance rapidly from +me to the doors, frightened.</p> + +<p>They must think I am about to +leap out of bed and pounce on +them and eat them. I am about +to laugh and reassure them, about +to say that all I want from them +is friendship, when I feel a twinge +in my abdomen from the sudden +motion. I touch it with one hand +under the bedclothes.</p> + +<p>There is the scar of an incision +there, almost healed. An operation. +The weakness I am recovering +from is more than the weakness +of starvation.</p> + +<p>For only half a second I do not +understand; then I see why they +looked ashamed.</p> + +<p>They voted the murder of a +race.</p> + +<p>All the human survivors found +have been made sterile. There +will be no more humans after +we die.</p> + +<p>I am frozen, one hand still extended +to grasp the hand of the +rabbity one, my eyes still searching +his expression, reassuring +words still half formed.</p> + +<p>There will be time for anger +or grief later, for now, in this instant, +I can understand. They are +probably quite right.</p> + +<p>We were carnivores.</p> + +<p>I know, because, at this moment +of hatred, I could kill them +all.</p> + +<p class="rgt"><b>—G. A. MORRIS</b></p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/002-2.jpg"><img src="images/002-1.jpg" width="144" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><big><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></big></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>Galaxy Science Fiction</i> October 1953. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Carnivore + +Author: G. A. Morris + +Illustrator: Burchard + +Release Date: September 20, 2009 [EBook #30044] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CARNIVORE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + the + carnivore + + By G. A. MORRIS + + Illustrated by BURCHARD + + + _Why were they apologetic? It + wasn't their fault that they + came to Earth much too late._ + + +The beings stood around my bed in air suits like ski suits, with globes +over their heads like upside-down fishbowls. It was all like a +masquerade, with odd costumes and funny masks. + +I know that the masks are their faces, but I argue with them and find I +think as if I am arguing with humans behind the masks. They are people. +I recognize people and whether I am going to like this person or that +person by something in the way they move and how they get excited when +they talk; and I know that I like these people in a motherly sort of +way. You have to feel motherly toward them, I guess. + +They all remind me of Ronny, a medical student I knew once. He was small +and round and eager. You had to like him, but you couldn't take him very +seriously. He was a pacifist; he wrote poetry and pulled it out to read +aloud at ill-timed moments; and he stuttered when he talked too fast. + +They are like that, all fright and gentleness. + + * * * * * + +I am not the only survivor--they have explained that--but I am the first +they found, and the least damaged, the one they have chosen to represent +the human race to them. They stand around my bed and answer questions, +and are nice to me when I argue with them. + +All in a group they look half-way between a delegation of nations and an +ark, one of each, big and small, thick and thin, four arms or wings, all +shapes and colors in fur and skin and feathers. + +I can picture them in their UN of the Universe, making speeches in their +different languages, listening patiently without understanding each +other's different problems, boring each other and being too polite to +yawn. + +They are polite, so polite I almost feel they are afraid of me, and I +want to reassure them. + +But I talk as if I were angry. I can't help it, because if things had +only been a little different ... "Why couldn't you have come sooner? Why +couldn't you have tried to stop it before it happened, or at least come +sooner, afterward...?" + +If they had come sooner to where the workers of the Nevada power pile +starved slowly behind their protecting walls of lead--if they had looked +sooner for survivors of the dust with which the nations of the world had +slain each other--George Craig would be alive. He died before they came. +He was my co-worker, and I loved him. + +We had gone down together, passing door by door the automatic safeguards +of the plant, which were supposed to protect the people on the outside +from the radioactive danger from the inside--but the danger of a failure +of politics was far more real than the danger of failure in the science +of the power pile, and that had not been calculated by the builders. We +were far underground when the first radioactivity in the air outside had +shut all the heavy, lead-shielded automatic doors between us and the +outside. + +We were safe. And we starved there. + +"Why didn't you come sooner?" I wonder if they know or guess how I feel. +My questions are not questions, but I have to ask them. He is dead. I +don't mean to reproach them--they look well meaning and kindly--but I +feel as if, somehow, knowing why it happened could make it stop, could +let me turn the clock back and make it happen differently. If I could +have signaled them, so they would have come just a little sooner. + +They look at one another, turning their funny-face heads uneasily, +moving back and forth, but no one will answer. + +The world is dead.... George is dead, that thin, pathetic creature with +the bones showing through his skin that he was when we sat still at the +last with our hands touching, thinking there were people outside who had +forgotten us, hoping they would remember. We didn't guess that the world +was dead, blanketed in radiating dust outside. Politics had killed it. + +These beings around me, they had been watching, seeing what was going to +happen to our world, listening to our radios from their small +settlements on the other planets of the Solar System. They had seen the +doom of war coming. They represented stellar civilizations of great +power and technology, and with populations that would have made ours +seem a small village; they were stronger than we were, and yet they had +done nothing. + +"Why didn't you stop us? You could have stopped us." + + * * * * * + +A rabbity one who is closer than the others backs away, gesturing +politely that he is giving room for someone else to speak, but he looks +guilty and will not look at me with his big round eyes. I still feel +weak and dizzy. It is hard to think, but I feel as if they are hiding a +secret. + +A doelike one hesitates and comes closer to my bed. "We discussed it ... +we voted...." It talks through a microphone in its helmet with a soft +lisping accent that I think comes from the shape of its mouth. It has a +muzzle and very soft, dainty, long nibbling lips like a deer that +nibbles on twigs and buds. + +"We were afraid," adds one who looks like a bear. + +"To us the future was very terrible," says one who looks as if it +might have descended from some sort of large bird like a penguin. "So +much-- Your weapons were very terrible." + +Now they all talk at once, crowding about my bed, apologizing. "So much +killing. It hurt to know about. But your people didn't seem to mind." + +"We were afraid." + +"And in your fiction," the doelike one lisped, "I saw plays from your +amusement machines which said that the discovery of beings in space +would save you from war, not because you would let us bring friendship +and teach peace, but because the human race would unite in _hatred_ of +the outsiders. They would forget their hatred of each other only in a +new and more terrible war with us." Its voice breaks in a squeak and it +turns its face away from me. + +"You were about to come out into space. We were wondering how to hide!" +That is a quick-talking one, as small as a child. He looks as if he +might have descended from a bat--gray silken fur on his pointed face, +big night-seeing eyes, and big sensitive ears, with a humped shape on +the back of his air suit which might be folded wings. "We were trying to +conceal where we had built, so that humans would not guess we were near +and look for us." + +They are ashamed of their fear, for because of it they broke all the +kindly laws of their civilizations, restrained all the pity and +gentleness I see in them, and let us destroy ourselves. + +I am beginning to feel more awake and to see more clearly. And I am +beginning to feel sorry for them, for I can see why they are afraid. + +They are herbivores. I remember the meaning of shapes. In the paths +of evolution there are grass eaters and berry eaters and root diggers. +Each has its functional shape of face and neck--and its wide, +startled-looking eyes to see and run away from the hunters. In all their +racial history they have never killed to eat. They have been killed and +eaten, or run away, and they evolved to intelligence by selection. Those +lived who succeeded in running away from carnivores like lions, hawks, +and men. + + * * * * * + +I look up, and they turn their eyes and heads in quick embarrassed +motion, not meeting my eye. The rabbity one is nearest and I reach out +to touch him, pleased because I am growing strong enough now to move my +arms. He looks at me and I ask the question: "Are there any +carnivores--flesh eaters--among you?" + +He hesitates, moving his lips as if searching for tactful words. "We +have never found any that were civilized. We have frequently found them +in caves and tents fighting each other. Sometimes we find them fighting +each other with the ruins of cities around them, but they are always +savages." + +The bearlike one said heavily, "It might be that carnivores evolve more +rapidly and tend toward intelligence more often, for we find radioactive +planets without life, and places like the place you call your asteroid +belt, where a planet should be--but there are only scattered fragments +of planet, pieces that look as if a planet had been blown apart. We +think that usually ..." He looked at me uncertainly, beginning to +fumble his words. "We think ..." + +[Illustration] + +"Yours is the only carnivorous race we have found that was--civilized, +that had a science and was going to come out into space," the doelike +one interrupted softly. "We were afraid." + +They seem to be apologizing. + +The rabbity one, who seems to be chosen as the leader in speaking to me, +says, "We will give you anything you want. Anything we are able to give +you." + +They mean it. We survivors will be privileged people, with a key to all +the cities, everything free. Their sincerity is wonderful, but puzzling. +Are they trying to atone for the thing they feel was a crime; that they +allowed humanity to murder itself, and lost to the Galaxy the richness +of a race? Is this why they are so generous? + +Perhaps then they will help the race to get started again. The records +are not lost. The few survivors can eventually repopulate Earth. Under +the tutelage of these peaceable races, without the stress of division +into nations, we will flower as a race. No children of mine to the +furthest descendant will ever make war again. This much of a lesson we +have learned. + +These timid beings do not realize how much humanity has wanted peace. +They do not know how reluctantly we were forced and trapped by old +institutions and warped tangles of politics to which we could see no +answer. We are not naturally savage. We are not savage when approached +as individuals. Perhaps they know this, but are afraid anyhow, +instinctive fear rising up from the blood of their hunted, frightened +forebears. + + * * * * * + +The human race will be a good partner to these races. Even recovering +from starvation as I am, I can feel in myself an energy they do not +have. The savage in me and my race is a creative thing, for in those who +have been educated as I was it is a controlled savagery which attacks +and destroys only problems and obstacles, never people. Any human raised +outside of the political traditions that the race inherited from its +bloodstained childhood would be as friendly and ready for friendship as +I am toward these beings. I could never hurt these pleasant, overgrown +bunnies and squirrels. + +"We will do everything we can to make up for ... we will try to help," +says the bunny, stumbling over the English, but civilized and cordial +and kind. + +I sit up suddenly, reaching out impulsively to shake his hand. Suddenly +frightened he leaps back. All of them step back, glancing behind them as +though making sure of the avenue of escape. Their big luminous eyes +widen and glance rapidly from me to the doors, frightened. + +They must think I am about to leap out of bed and pounce on them and eat +them. I am about to laugh and reassure them, about to say that all I +want from them is friendship, when I feel a twinge in my abdomen from +the sudden motion. I touch it with one hand under the bedclothes. + +There is the scar of an incision there, almost healed. An operation. The +weakness I am recovering from is more than the weakness of starvation. + +For only half a second I do not understand; then I see why they looked +ashamed. + +They voted the murder of a race. + +All the human survivors found have been made sterile. There will be no +more humans after we die. + +I am frozen, one hand still extended to grasp the hand of the rabbity +one, my eyes still searching his expression, reassuring words still half +formed. + +There will be time for anger or grief later, for now, in this instant, I +can understand. They are probably quite right. + +We were carnivores. + +I know, because, at this moment of hatred, I could kill them all. + + --G. A. MORRIS + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Galaxy Science Fiction_ October 1953. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and + typographical errors have been corrected without note. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Carnivore, by G. A. 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It +wasn't their fault that they +came to Earth much too late.</i></b></big></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">The</span> beings stood around +my bed in air suits like ski suits, +with globes over their +heads like upside-down fishbowls. +It was all like a masquerade, with +odd costumes and funny masks.</p> + +<p>I know that the masks are +their faces, but I argue with them +and find I think as if I am arguing +with humans behind the +masks. They are people. I recognize +people and whether I am +going to like this person or that +person by something in the way +they move and how they get excited +when they talk; and I know +that I like these people in a +motherly sort of way. You have +to feel motherly toward them, I +guess.</p> + +<p>They all remind me of Ronny, +a medical student I knew once. +He was small and round and +eager. You had to like him, but +you couldn't take him very seriously. +He was a pacifist; he wrote +poetry and pulled it out to read +aloud at ill-timed moments; and +he stuttered when he talked too +fast.</p> + +<p>They are like that, all fright +and gentleness.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">I am</span> not the only survivor—they +have explained that—but +I am the first they found, +and the least damaged, the one +they have chosen to represent the +human race to them. They stand +around my bed and answer questions, +and are nice to me when I +argue with them.</p> + +<p>All in a group they look half-way +between a delegation of nations +and an ark, one of each, big +and small, thick and thin, four +arms or wings, all shapes and +colors in fur and skin and feathers.</p> + +<p>I can picture them in their +UN of the Universe, making +speeches in their different languages, +listening patiently without +understanding each other's +different problems, boring each +other and being too polite to +yawn.</p> + +<p>They are polite, so polite I almost +feel they are afraid of me, +and I want to reassure them.</p> + +<p>But I talk as if I were angry. +I can't help it, because if things +had only been a little different ... "Why +couldn't you have come +sooner? Why couldn't you have +tried to stop it before it happened, +or at least come sooner, afterward...?"</p> + +<p>If they had come sooner to +where the workers of the Nevada +power pile starved slowly behind +their protecting walls of lead—if +they had looked sooner for +survivors of the dust with which +the nations of the world had slain +each other—George Craig would +be alive. He died before they +came. He was my co-worker, and +I loved him.</p> + +<p>We had gone down together, +passing door by door the automatic +safeguards of the plant, +which were supposed to protect +the people on the outside from +the radioactive danger from the +inside—but the danger of a +failure of politics was far more +real than the danger of failure +in the science of the power pile, +and that had not been calculated +by the builders. We were far underground +when the first radioactivity +in the air outside had +shut all the heavy, lead-shielded +automatic doors between us and +the outside.</p> + +<p>We were safe. And we starved +there.</p> + +<p>"Why didn't you come sooner?" +I wonder if they know or guess +how I feel. My questions are not +questions, but I have to ask them. +He is dead. I don't mean to reproach +them—they look well +meaning and kindly—but I feel +as if, somehow, knowing why it +happened could make it stop, +could let me turn the clock back +and make it happen differently. If +I could have signaled them, so +they would have come just a little +sooner.</p> + +<p>They look at one another, turning +their funny-face heads uneasily, +moving back and forth, +but no one will answer.</p> + +<p>The world is dead.... George +is dead, that thin, pathetic creature +with the bones showing +through his skin that he was when +we sat still at the last with our +hands touching, thinking there +were people outside who had forgotten +us, hoping they would remember. +We didn't guess that +the world was dead, blanketed in +radiating dust outside. Politics +had killed it.</p> + +<p>These beings around me, they +had been watching, seeing what +was going to happen to our world, +listening to our radios from their +small settlements on the other +planets of the Solar System. They +had seen the doom of war coming. +They represented stellar civilizations +of great power and technology, +and with populations that +would have made ours seem a +small village; they were stronger +than we were, and yet they had +done nothing.</p> + +<p>"Why didn't you stop us? You +could have stopped us."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">A rabbity</span> one who is closer +than the others backs away, +gesturing politely that he is giving +room for someone else to +speak, but he looks guilty and +will not look at me with his big +round eyes. I still feel weak and +dizzy. It is hard to think, but I +feel as if they are hiding a secret.</p> + +<p>A doelike one hesitates and +comes closer to my bed. "We discussed +it ... we voted...." It +talks through a microphone in +its helmet with a soft lisping accent +that I think comes from the +shape of its mouth. It has a muzzle +and very soft, dainty, long +nibbling lips like a deer that nibbles +on twigs and buds.</p> + +<p>"We were afraid," adds one +who looks like a bear.</p> + +<p>"To us the future was very terrible," +says one who looks as if it +might have descended from some +sort of large bird like a penguin. +"So much— Your weapons were +very terrible."</p> + +<p>Now they all talk at once, +crowding about my bed, apologizing. +"So much killing. It hurt +to know about. But your people +didn't seem to mind."</p> + +<p>"We were afraid."</p> + +<p>"And in your fiction," the doelike +one lisped, "I saw plays from +your amusement machines which +said that the discovery of beings +in space would save you from +war, not because you would let +us bring friendship and teach +peace, but because the human +race would unite in <i>hatred</i> of the +outsiders. They would forget their +hatred of each other only in a +new and more terrible war with +us." Its voice breaks in a squeak +and it turns its face away from +me.</p> + +<p>"You were about to come out +into space. We were wondering +how to hide!" That is a quick-talking +one, as small as a child. +He looks as if he might have +descended from a bat—gray +silken fur on his pointed face, big +night-seeing eyes, and big sensitive +ears, with a humped shape +on the back of his air suit which +might be folded wings. "We were +trying to conceal where we had +built, so that humans would not +guess we were near and look for +us."</p> + +<p>They are ashamed of their fear, +for because of it they broke all +the kindly laws of their civilizations, +restrained all the pity and +gentleness I see in them, and let +us destroy ourselves.</p> + +<p>I am beginning to feel more +awake and to see more clearly. +And I am beginning to feel sorry +for them, for I can see why they +are afraid.</p> + +<p>They are herbivores. I remember +the meaning of shapes. In the +paths of evolution there are grass +eaters and berry eaters and root +diggers. Each has its functional +shape of face and neck—and its +wide, startled-looking eyes to see +and run away from the hunters. +In all their racial history they +have never killed to eat. They +have been killed and eaten, or +run away, and they evolved to +intelligence by selection. Those +lived who succeeded in running +away from carnivores like lions, +hawks, and men.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">I look</span> up, and they turn their +eyes and heads in quick embarrassed +motion, not meeting my +eye. The rabbity one is nearest +and I reach out to touch him, +pleased because I am growing +strong enough now to move my +arms. He looks at me and I ask +the question: "Are there any +carnivores—flesh eaters—among +you?"</p> + +<p>He hesitates, moving his lips +as if searching for tactful words. +"We have never found any that +were civilized. We have frequently +found them in caves and tents +fighting each other. Sometimes +we find them fighting each other +with the ruins of cities around +them, but they are always savages."</p> + +<p>The bearlike one said heavily, +"It might be that carnivores +evolve more rapidly and tend +toward intelligence more often, +for we find radioactive planets +without life, and places like the +place you call your asteroid belt, +where a planet should be—but +there are only scattered fragments +of planet, pieces that look as if a +planet had been blown apart. We +think that usually ..." He looked +at me uncertainly, beginning to +fumble his words. "We think ..."</p> + +<div class="figr"><img src="images/001.png" width="346" height="500" alt="" title="" /></div> + +<p>"Yours is the only carnivorous +race we have found that was—civilized, +that had a science and +was going to come out into +space," the doelike one interrupted +softly. "We were afraid."</p> + +<p>They seem to be apologizing.</p> + +<p>The rabbity one, who seems to +be chosen as the leader in speaking +to me, says, "We will give you +anything you want. Anything we +are able to give you."</p> + +<p>They mean it. We survivors +will be privileged people, with a +key to all the cities, everything +free. Their sincerity is wonderful, +but puzzling. Are they trying to +atone for the thing they feel was +a crime; that they allowed humanity +to murder itself, and lost +to the Galaxy the richness of a +race? Is this why they are so +generous?</p> + +<p>Perhaps then they will help the +race to get started again. The +records are not lost. The few survivors +can eventually repopulate +Earth. Under the tutelage of +these peaceable races, without the +stress of division into nations, we +will flower as a race. No children +of mine to the furthest descendant +will ever make war again. This +much of a lesson we have learned.</p> + +<p>These timid beings do not realize +how much humanity has +wanted peace. They do not know +how reluctantly we were forced +and trapped by old institutions +and warped tangles of politics to +which we could see no answer. +We are not naturally savage. We +are not savage when approached +as individuals. Perhaps they +know this, but are afraid anyhow, +instinctive fear rising up from the +blood of their hunted, frightened +forebears.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">The</span> human race will be a good +partner to these races. Even +recovering from starvation as I +am, I can feel in myself an energy +they do not have. The savage in +me and my race is a creative +thing, for in those who have been +educated as I was it is a controlled +savagery which attacks +and destroys only problems and +obstacles, never people. Any human +raised outside of the political +traditions that the race +inherited from its bloodstained +childhood would be as friendly +and ready for friendship as I am +toward these beings. I could never +hurt these pleasant, overgrown +bunnies and squirrels.</p> + +<p>"We will do everything we can +to make up for ... we will try to +help," says the bunny, stumbling +over the English, but civilized +and cordial and kind.</p> + +<p>I sit up suddenly, reaching out +impulsively to shake his hand. +Suddenly frightened he leaps +back. All of them step back, +glancing behind them as though +making sure of the avenue of +escape. Their big luminous eyes +widen and glance rapidly from +me to the doors, frightened.</p> + +<p>They must think I am about to +leap out of bed and pounce on +them and eat them. I am about +to laugh and reassure them, about +to say that all I want from them +is friendship, when I feel a twinge +in my abdomen from the sudden +motion. I touch it with one hand +under the bedclothes.</p> + +<p>There is the scar of an incision +there, almost healed. An operation. +The weakness I am recovering +from is more than the weakness +of starvation.</p> + +<p>For only half a second I do not +understand; then I see why they +looked ashamed.</p> + +<p>They voted the murder of a +race.</p> + +<p>All the human survivors found +have been made sterile. There +will be no more humans after +we die.</p> + +<p>I am frozen, one hand still extended +to grasp the hand of the +rabbity one, my eyes still searching +his expression, reassuring +words still half formed.</p> + +<p>There will be time for anger +or grief later, for now, in this instant, +I can understand. They are +probably quite right.</p> + +<p>We were carnivores.</p> + +<p>I know, because, at this moment +of hatred, I could kill them +all.</p> + +<p class="rgt"><b>—G. A. MORRIS</b></p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/002-2.jpg"><img src="images/002-1.jpg" width="144" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><big><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></big></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>Galaxy Science Fiction</i> October 1953. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and +typographical errors have been corrected without note.</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Carnivore, by G. A. 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A. Morris + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Carnivore + +Author: G. A. Morris + +Illustrator: Burchard + +Release Date: September 20, 2009 [EBook #30044] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CARNIVORE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + the + carnivore + + By G. A. MORRIS + + Illustrated by BURCHARD + + + _Why were they apologetic? It + wasn't their fault that they + came to Earth much too late._ + + +The beings stood around my bed in air suits like ski suits, with globes +over their heads like upside-down fishbowls. It was all like a +masquerade, with odd costumes and funny masks. + +I know that the masks are their faces, but I argue with them and find I +think as if I am arguing with humans behind the masks. They are people. +I recognize people and whether I am going to like this person or that +person by something in the way they move and how they get excited when +they talk; and I know that I like these people in a motherly sort of +way. You have to feel motherly toward them, I guess. + +They all remind me of Ronny, a medical student I knew once. He was small +and round and eager. You had to like him, but you couldn't take him very +seriously. He was a pacifist; he wrote poetry and pulled it out to read +aloud at ill-timed moments; and he stuttered when he talked too fast. + +They are like that, all fright and gentleness. + + * * * * * + +I am not the only survivor--they have explained that--but I am the first +they found, and the least damaged, the one they have chosen to represent +the human race to them. They stand around my bed and answer questions, +and are nice to me when I argue with them. + +All in a group they look half-way between a delegation of nations and an +ark, one of each, big and small, thick and thin, four arms or wings, all +shapes and colors in fur and skin and feathers. + +I can picture them in their UN of the Universe, making speeches in their +different languages, listening patiently without understanding each +other's different problems, boring each other and being too polite to +yawn. + +They are polite, so polite I almost feel they are afraid of me, and I +want to reassure them. + +But I talk as if I were angry. I can't help it, because if things had +only been a little different ... "Why couldn't you have come sooner? Why +couldn't you have tried to stop it before it happened, or at least come +sooner, afterward...?" + +If they had come sooner to where the workers of the Nevada power pile +starved slowly behind their protecting walls of lead--if they had looked +sooner for survivors of the dust with which the nations of the world had +slain each other--George Craig would be alive. He died before they came. +He was my co-worker, and I loved him. + +We had gone down together, passing door by door the automatic safeguards +of the plant, which were supposed to protect the people on the outside +from the radioactive danger from the inside--but the danger of a failure +of politics was far more real than the danger of failure in the science +of the power pile, and that had not been calculated by the builders. We +were far underground when the first radioactivity in the air outside had +shut all the heavy, lead-shielded automatic doors between us and the +outside. + +We were safe. And we starved there. + +"Why didn't you come sooner?" I wonder if they know or guess how I feel. +My questions are not questions, but I have to ask them. He is dead. I +don't mean to reproach them--they look well meaning and kindly--but I +feel as if, somehow, knowing why it happened could make it stop, could +let me turn the clock back and make it happen differently. If I could +have signaled them, so they would have come just a little sooner. + +They look at one another, turning their funny-face heads uneasily, +moving back and forth, but no one will answer. + +The world is dead.... George is dead, that thin, pathetic creature with +the bones showing through his skin that he was when we sat still at the +last with our hands touching, thinking there were people outside who had +forgotten us, hoping they would remember. We didn't guess that the world +was dead, blanketed in radiating dust outside. Politics had killed it. + +These beings around me, they had been watching, seeing what was going to +happen to our world, listening to our radios from their small +settlements on the other planets of the Solar System. They had seen the +doom of war coming. They represented stellar civilizations of great +power and technology, and with populations that would have made ours +seem a small village; they were stronger than we were, and yet they had +done nothing. + +"Why didn't you stop us? You could have stopped us." + + * * * * * + +A rabbity one who is closer than the others backs away, gesturing +politely that he is giving room for someone else to speak, but he looks +guilty and will not look at me with his big round eyes. I still feel +weak and dizzy. It is hard to think, but I feel as if they are hiding a +secret. + +A doelike one hesitates and comes closer to my bed. "We discussed it ... +we voted...." It talks through a microphone in its helmet with a soft +lisping accent that I think comes from the shape of its mouth. It has a +muzzle and very soft, dainty, long nibbling lips like a deer that +nibbles on twigs and buds. + +"We were afraid," adds one who looks like a bear. + +"To us the future was very terrible," says one who looks as if it +might have descended from some sort of large bird like a penguin. "So +much-- Your weapons were very terrible." + +Now they all talk at once, crowding about my bed, apologizing. "So much +killing. It hurt to know about. But your people didn't seem to mind." + +"We were afraid." + +"And in your fiction," the doelike one lisped, "I saw plays from your +amusement machines which said that the discovery of beings in space +would save you from war, not because you would let us bring friendship +and teach peace, but because the human race would unite in _hatred_ of +the outsiders. They would forget their hatred of each other only in a +new and more terrible war with us." Its voice breaks in a squeak and it +turns its face away from me. + +"You were about to come out into space. We were wondering how to hide!" +That is a quick-talking one, as small as a child. He looks as if he +might have descended from a bat--gray silken fur on his pointed face, +big night-seeing eyes, and big sensitive ears, with a humped shape on +the back of his air suit which might be folded wings. "We were trying to +conceal where we had built, so that humans would not guess we were near +and look for us." + +They are ashamed of their fear, for because of it they broke all the +kindly laws of their civilizations, restrained all the pity and +gentleness I see in them, and let us destroy ourselves. + +I am beginning to feel more awake and to see more clearly. And I am +beginning to feel sorry for them, for I can see why they are afraid. + +They are herbivores. I remember the meaning of shapes. In the paths +of evolution there are grass eaters and berry eaters and root diggers. +Each has its functional shape of face and neck--and its wide, +startled-looking eyes to see and run away from the hunters. In all their +racial history they have never killed to eat. They have been killed and +eaten, or run away, and they evolved to intelligence by selection. Those +lived who succeeded in running away from carnivores like lions, hawks, +and men. + + * * * * * + +I look up, and they turn their eyes and heads in quick embarrassed +motion, not meeting my eye. The rabbity one is nearest and I reach out +to touch him, pleased because I am growing strong enough now to move my +arms. He looks at me and I ask the question: "Are there any +carnivores--flesh eaters--among you?" + +He hesitates, moving his lips as if searching for tactful words. "We +have never found any that were civilized. We have frequently found them +in caves and tents fighting each other. Sometimes we find them fighting +each other with the ruins of cities around them, but they are always +savages." + +The bearlike one said heavily, "It might be that carnivores evolve more +rapidly and tend toward intelligence more often, for we find radioactive +planets without life, and places like the place you call your asteroid +belt, where a planet should be--but there are only scattered fragments +of planet, pieces that look as if a planet had been blown apart. We +think that usually ..." He looked at me uncertainly, beginning to +fumble his words. "We think ..." + +[Illustration] + +"Yours is the only carnivorous race we have found that was--civilized, +that had a science and was going to come out into space," the doelike +one interrupted softly. "We were afraid." + +They seem to be apologizing. + +The rabbity one, who seems to be chosen as the leader in speaking to me, +says, "We will give you anything you want. Anything we are able to give +you." + +They mean it. We survivors will be privileged people, with a key to all +the cities, everything free. Their sincerity is wonderful, but puzzling. +Are they trying to atone for the thing they feel was a crime; that they +allowed humanity to murder itself, and lost to the Galaxy the richness +of a race? Is this why they are so generous? + +Perhaps then they will help the race to get started again. The records +are not lost. The few survivors can eventually repopulate Earth. Under +the tutelage of these peaceable races, without the stress of division +into nations, we will flower as a race. No children of mine to the +furthest descendant will ever make war again. This much of a lesson we +have learned. + +These timid beings do not realize how much humanity has wanted peace. +They do not know how reluctantly we were forced and trapped by old +institutions and warped tangles of politics to which we could see no +answer. We are not naturally savage. We are not savage when approached +as individuals. Perhaps they know this, but are afraid anyhow, +instinctive fear rising up from the blood of their hunted, frightened +forebears. + + * * * * * + +The human race will be a good partner to these races. Even recovering +from starvation as I am, I can feel in myself an energy they do not +have. The savage in me and my race is a creative thing, for in those who +have been educated as I was it is a controlled savagery which attacks +and destroys only problems and obstacles, never people. Any human raised +outside of the political traditions that the race inherited from its +bloodstained childhood would be as friendly and ready for friendship as +I am toward these beings. I could never hurt these pleasant, overgrown +bunnies and squirrels. + +"We will do everything we can to make up for ... we will try to help," +says the bunny, stumbling over the English, but civilized and cordial +and kind. + +I sit up suddenly, reaching out impulsively to shake his hand. Suddenly +frightened he leaps back. All of them step back, glancing behind them as +though making sure of the avenue of escape. Their big luminous eyes +widen and glance rapidly from me to the doors, frightened. + +They must think I am about to leap out of bed and pounce on them and eat +them. I am about to laugh and reassure them, about to say that all I +want from them is friendship, when I feel a twinge in my abdomen from +the sudden motion. I touch it with one hand under the bedclothes. + +There is the scar of an incision there, almost healed. An operation. The +weakness I am recovering from is more than the weakness of starvation. + +For only half a second I do not understand; then I see why they looked +ashamed. + +They voted the murder of a race. + +All the human survivors found have been made sterile. There will be no +more humans after we die. + +I am frozen, one hand still extended to grasp the hand of the rabbity +one, my eyes still searching his expression, reassuring words still half +formed. + +There will be time for anger or grief later, for now, in this instant, I +can understand. They are probably quite right. + +We were carnivores. + +I know, because, at this moment of hatred, I could kill them all. + + --G. A. MORRIS + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Galaxy Science Fiction_ October 1953. + Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and + typographical errors have been corrected without note. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Carnivore, by G. A. 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