Seed of the Gods

————III which they called Earth or Orton contains the age-lasting concept of animal force and violence But we, too, went through that stage I know long ago and just two thousand of their years from barbarism to a shallow-space culture Because of the influence of the large-eyed ones, which were more successful The girl's development was mostly evolutionary. Don't you see—the experiments were not so unsuccessful Even the large-eyed ones are hopelessly primitive. Are they not going to exterminate an entire planet Remember the Techcals, how we————ed their colonization fleet of two thousand ships and then ————ed a few hundred stars on the rim of their Galaxy as a further warning. We had remnants of barbarism Self-protection. We could not co-exist with the Techcals. We were mutually destructive The large-eyed children see themselves threatened by the primitive attempts of the scientists of————III. And did we not implant the repugnance in the large eyes It was decided long ago that we should allow them to develop naturally And there were those among us even then who said that we were responsible Females They were our children not of our flesh but of our eggs. We had our arrogance. Creating them engineering them for special purposes. The large eyes for the dim planets and the dark ones for the fiery suns You were sad when we left them, I know. But we felt we were right not only in altering them to spread life through a sterile Galaxy Not sterile there was————III, a planet much like the home world with the same sun the same slow process of change. And you were not content to leave it to develop but peopled it with our children the special purpose ones A wrong guess. We should have allowed more time for testing You admit you were wrong Do you realize this is the first time you've exercised the old feminine technique of I-told-you-so in forty millennia In all the Galaxy two, just two, and because our sun was older and was developing life while the sun of———— III was still being formed we are going to allow the large-eyed ones to destroy all life. They are ending the experiment and that ends our last influence on that mixture of native life, our children from the fiery suns and the blood of the large-eyed men. We made them and we were fumbling in fields which we did not fully understand. Not even our great knowledge of life could make them perfect outside the mother's womb with the building blocks of life manipulated to make them suitable for the marginal planets. And now we are given a second chance through the happy accidents which have produced that young girl. What will be left if we do not act once more. The large-eyed children will live and continue to make their minute advances but they will never reach He saw and laughed. Fickle woman, are you so bored with me that you want another to play your console And you radiant one with random punches and your lust for the novel, would you not view with pleasure the opportunity to share pleasure with an entirely new entity I would have to go out once more This time I will go. The eggs which produced them were taken from me. It will take but a moment A multi-digit punch and a lucky one left her momentarily weak with joy and then she was gone. To amuse himself he broke into his billions of component minds and reviewed the history of the race for he would not punch his own console That small, detached part of her found them preparing to leave. She