After the initial incident in an area called Japan, Prime passed the word to all his fellows, and they deliberately spurred the humans on to produce great piles of nuclear ammunition. Later, by clever manipulation of the humans' sub-conscious emotions and instincts of self-preservation, Prime's culture ironically turned this unique attribute back on the humans. They were goaded into a self-destroying atomic war that accomplished Prime's vengeance in a very brief time. True, a great number of diamonds were destroyed in the holocaust, but as I mentioned, Prime was not at all contaminated with this survival-of-the-individual instinct of his created life-forms. Rather, he gloated and took immense egotistical pleasure in the destruction of his creations. When I came upon him that last day in his oxidized condition he had only one regret. He confessed that a single human individual had escaped the radio-active destruction. Blinded and weakened, he was at the point of despair when I scraped the black oxidation from his exterior. It was this last human's death which he named when I asked him the nature of his mission. He invited me to come along, solely, I suspect, to save him the strenuous task of teleportation of his own mass to the vicinity of the human. As he bid, I carried him across one ocean, deep into the interior of a continent he called North America. My curiosity was at some pitch to meet a living specimen of Prime's paternity, although I gave him no inkling of my sharp interest. We found this human, a _female_, (see chart) near the peak of a mountain. Her abode was a great cave lined with lead, air-tight and littered with mechanical devices to filter the air she breathed and otherwise provide for her survival. Prime explained that this female had been considered a highly beautiful example of her kind, yet she was also a scientist of some reputation. Her scientific ability and remarkable foresight were quite apparent from the scrupulous pains she had taken to avoid destruction--since that was her motivation in secreting herself in the wilderness. Her appearance, however, was anything but thrilling to me. The protuberance that Prime called her _head_ was covered with a sickly yellow tangle of filaments. The organs for sight, hearing, aereation and speaking were unsightly bumps, holes and gashes. I will admit that the way she moved her torso and appendages did have a certain exotic rhythm, but by and large I was unimpressed by her physical appearance. With my assistance, Prime and I materialized inside her abode without violating the integrity of her air-tight structure. I placed Prime on the female's _table_ (see chart) where she was busily ingesting preserved organic material from an open vessel of alloyed metals. She gasped, and her visual sockets opened wide. I sensed fear-shock then admiration bordering on ecstasy. She grasped Prime with an appendage and held him up to a source of artificial light.