Creation -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories
"But it must be yours. The entire facsimile is tuned to your
wavelength. We have checked. Only you could have brought it into being;
only you can destroy it. You know it is against the rules to increase
the number of species in Creation. Destroy it!"
Jeremy looked at the creature so comfortably asleep against a tree and
he felt pity and compassion and love for it.
"I cannot, Instructor. I do not know how it got there, unless it is
a product of my dreams. Once I forgot to shut off the power while I
slept."
"Sheer negligence! Destroy it, I say!"
"No it belongs there now. And it looks lonely." Without warning he
snapped on his Augmentor and before the Instructor could interfere,
there appeared on the grass beside the creature another of the same
species.
"Now you've done it," the Instructor screamed. "It can reproduce its
kind." His voice grew coldly stern. "You have created an unreasonable
facsimile. You know what that means."
Mutely Jeremy got up from his chair. Automatically he reached for his
course record card in Advanced Deliberation And Memory. To save space
on it all courses were listed by the first letters of the course name.
A glance verified the Instructor's verdict:
J. Hovah
Failed in ADAM.
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