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Dahhan had left to meet up with Arvania. Given the fact that he had not had that much sleep, he was surprisingly awake! Joden had watched him leaving, he had moved into the laboratory. Could see the flicker of a screen. He stepped over to it accessed the terminal. He knew that Dahhan was meticulous when it came to recording his research notes.
Looking through the recent notes, he was speechless! So the winged creature was known as a Fodawke. Discovery of another species on the planet. Known as the Cflen. The planet was Cflenia.
The Cflen, who resembled a Humana yet had wings and could fly. Had Dahhan finally lost his marbles? Yet the sample results, were precise and he had to agree. The DNA similarities were astonishing. He too, was finding the biological similarities, between the Cflen and the Fodawke bizarre!
"Bloody hell." Caley stepped through the hatch to see him. Hearing him muttering, she scowled. She disliked Dahhan, but Joden You would have to be a fool to regard him as anything but psychotic. A born sadist with a really nasty violent temper. As for his caustic sarcasm.
“Hey! Both races similar, cept ones got a brain, the other had one, but lost it! Ucking reminds me of you Caley.“ She scowled again. “Might I suggest you b'stard that you stop looking at your own reflection.”
Joden had a flat nose. Caley often remarked. 'That the runt of the litter, had been born, in a test tube.'
“Don’t tell me you’re in the Geno records, looking at your own profile. I mean, you did mention NO brain!“ She laughed sneering at him. “I’d check, see if you had balls back then.“ She turned and left still grinning.
It was an hour later, when Joden was stood in the Regen chamber. Stepping over to a Regen unit. He stared at module marked 00x4b6, Caley’s favourite. Smiled as he placed a data disc into the slot and waited. The unit illuminated, buzzed into life, as data streams activated. Confirmed, accepted data. "Now we’ll see, who hasn’t got a brain bitch!”
Arvania had been cautious, to slip away, she had hoped unnoticed. A good twenty minutes, before she dropped to the ground, folded in her wings and waited.
There were no Fodawke flying around? For some reason, they seemed to avoid this area. On the flat rock a clearly visible target. None of her people to her knowledge had ever been attacked by Fodawke here. It was regarded by them as sacred ground.
What she didn’t know was that the rocks mass, contained a mild gas that it emitted. In the early hours and during the day when the heat from the suns flooded the area the gas would rise.
The Fodawke warned off by their heightened sense of smell. Too close to the rock would have them breathing it in.
Confusion, disorientation. Most unpleasant to them!
Dahhan arrived shortly afterwards, he had been pleased to see her and this time he beckoned her inside the craft.
She was he noted curious, but also nervous. “You don’t have to be.“ He moved closer to her. “Not with me.“ She stared at him, he could see the semblance of a smile.“Its all so new, isn’t it?” “I was one of those, when I was much younger, that had the privilege, of being taken into Tolgani’s craft by my mother.” He was pouring some water when he stopped.
“Your mother?” She moved her head extending her hand, to grip the glass, taking it off him, sipping the water. “So how do you reproduce?” What a strange question to ask? Or was it?
“We have males aswell as females!” He was even more curious. “But very, few males in comparison to females, and NOT all of our race are produced pro actively by us individually spawning.“
He was going over what she had said in his mind, he couldn’t make sense of her last words. "Not all of our race, are produced pro actively." His questions were met with silence. “It is forbidden to tell you any more, I would be violating our sacred code, the gods would be angered.“ In her mind, she was hearing others words, on her lips repeating them. “I would surely be punished, in the jaws of a Fodawke for telling you anything more.“
The day wore on. Closing the hatch, he took her on a ride across some of the planet’s land surface. Places she recognised.
She pointed out various features and then saw to her horror, on a high ledge a huge nesting area.
It must have been at least a hundred, well established Fodawke nests. From what she could see and sense, at least three to four eggs in each one! He could sense her fear, as he too looked on, at the nest after nest.
“This is sooo wrong! there are far too many of them. Three eggs in a nest?!! There have NEVER been more than one egg to a nest!“ She was shaking. Priming the weapon arrays, he waited for them to become fully charged!
Two Fodawke coming at him as he fired for them to drop away at speed, downwards. Firing at random, he set the nests ablaze. The wind picked up the flames and soon the fire spread. Illuminating the sky with red and orange hues.
Instruments buzzed, warning him. At least a dozen Fodawke in flight, towards him.
Ok so two, he could resist, but more than that was taking a risk of being compromised. He primed the main rocket arrays, fired taking out four of more of the Fodawke in flight.
Turning the craft headed away at speed. What Dahhan did not hear were the shrieks, the screams of rage from the remaining Fodawke hovering above the smouldering remains on the ridge.
Minutes later the screeches died back. Circling to join up, at least forty of them. For creatures who had small brains and as Caley had muttered. ‘With brains the size of Dahhans or Joden's, unlikely to be anything but stupid creatures?'
These appeared set on a course of action which was planned and calculated?! Something, a simple species, as she would agree; would be incapable of! Arvania left Dahhan after she had shared some food with him.
Delighted to see the destruction or the culling, of so many of the Fodawke. Tomorrow he had promised, they would go look for more nests. It was his intention to seize an egg?He had held her kissed her on the cheek. Watched her leave. Took a swab wiped it across his lips and placed it into a tube.
The main Cflen area was quiet, the young Cflen were playing, the older ones, watching them as they, talked about the Humana."
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