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Little Fuzzy
As soon as he put on the light, something inside the shower stall said, "Yeeeek!" in a startled voice.
He turned quickly to see two wide eyes staring up at him out of a ball of golden fur. Whatever it was, it had a round head and big ears and a vaguely humanoid face with a little snub nose. It was sitting on its haunches, and in that position it was about a foot high.
The planet Zarathustra is classified as having no native sentient inhabitants, and the the company that runs the planet will lose its charter if native sentient beings are discovered there. So when climate change brings the Fuzzies out of their secluded forests and into the lands settled by man, the Zarathustra Company will do anything in its power (no matter how illegal) to prevent the Fuzzies from being classified as sapient.
Fuzzy Sapiens
Little Fuzzy got out his pipe, the new one Pappy Jack had brought out from the BIg House Place, and stuffed it with tobacco, and got out the little fire-maker. Some of the Fuzzies around him, who had just come in from the woods, were frightened. they were not used to fire; when fire happened in the woods, it was bad. That was wild fire, though. The Big Ones had tamed fire, and if a person was careful not to touch it or let it get loose, fire was nothing to be afraid of.
Although the Fuzzies' sapience has been legally established and the Charterless Zarathustra Company no longer runs the planet, there is danger that the planetary government may fall into unsympathetic hands once martial law is replaced by a civilian government. And there is another equally important problem that the Fuzzies' supporters must face. Why is the birth rate so low and so many Fuzzy babies stillborn?
Little Fuzzy
As soon as he put on the light, something inside the shower stall said, "Yeeeek!" in a startled voice.
He turned quickly to see two wide eyes staring up at him out of a ball of golden fur. Whatever it was, it had a round head and big ears and a vaguely humanoid face with a little snub nose. It was sitting on its haunches, and in that position it was about a foot high.
The planet Zarathustra is classified as having no native sentient inhabitants, and the the company that runs the planet will lose its charter if native sentient beings are discovered there. So when climate change brings the Fuzzies out of their secluded forests and into the lands settled by man, the Zarathustra Company will do anything in its power (no matter how illegal) to prevent the Fuzzies from being classified as sapient.
Fuzzy Sapiens
Little Fuzzy got out his pipe, the new one Pappy Jack had brought out from the BIg House Place, and stuffed it with tobacco, and got out the little fire-maker. Some of the Fuzzies around him, who had just come in from the woods, were frightened. they were not used to fire; when fire happened in the woods, it was bad. That was wild fire, though. The Big Ones had tamed fire, and if a person was careful not to touch it or let it get loose, fire was nothing to be afraid of.
Although the Fuzzies' sapience has been legally established and the Charterless Zarathustra Company no longer runs the planet, there is danger that the planetary government may fall into unsympathetic hands once martial law is replaced by a civilian government. And there is another equally important problem that the Fuzzies' supporters must face. Why is the birth rate so low and so many Fuzzy babies stillborn?
