We were driving back to the station, when we received a call for an unusual activity near a old Foundery on Lagoon Road, so we went there and arrived around 10 p.m., if I remember right. It was raining heavily at that time, so we approached quietly to the building. Allen dropped me off near the back door of the Foundery, while he turned around to see if there was anyone around, then we went inside together and we saw him. There was a man or it looked like a man, near at this strange aircraft, which it was not like a flyng saucer, it was single-seater…more like a capsule.
We were very confused, maybe even frightened and then…he saw us, we declare ourselves and we intimated him to step back from that thing. He was slightly surprised to see us, but he obeyed and we approached to him very slowly and when our torches illuminated his face…I really can’t believe that I’am repeating this story… he wasn’t human, I’m sure of this, but his appearance was kinda of similar to us. He had this grey skin, no hair, no ears, bright blue eyes and a white vertical strip from his front to his whole head.
We were astonished and then Allen fainted in front of us, the alien seems to be very sorry about that; I checked on my colleague to see if he was okay and the guy asked me:
“How is he?”
I looked on him, surprised that he could speak my language and I asked him: “What are you?”
He glared at me and he told me: “I’m not a “what” officer, I’m a “who””. And we have started to talk.
“Sorry sir, It’s fine by the way. So, who are you? Where are you from?”
“In your language you can call me Agavis, as for my home I cannot answer the question officer.”
“Why?”
“It’s pointless, but let’s just say that I come from another system of the Milky Way.”
“How long have you been here sir?”
“50 years, It’s hard to recall by now”
“And why didn’t you make a contact with us in these years?”
“I was instructed to try, if you would have made some progress.”
“What do you mean?”
“This mission started two hundred years ago, when we first discovered Earth. We were not aware, at the time, of the existence of humanity, so we were all excited to make a contact with you, when we found out that the planet was already inhabitated. However, your technology was primitive, we couldn’t receive any answer from you; so my division have begun this mission of “diplomatic observation””
“What does it mean?”
“Our job was to try a direct contact, but before that, we needed to know more about your story, how it was a human.”
“And why did you not make any contact with us then?”
“We studied, we learned that we cannot have any contact with you, never.”
“What? Why!?”
“Why? You asked that officer? Your species didn’t evolved, you continue to have problems with your own people. You’re scared from diversity, you judge people on what they believe or on who they are. How do you think the humanity will react to alien outsiders? This is not a chance that my people can seriously take.”
“It’s a bit unfair to judge us, when we don’t know nothing about you and your kind, we don’t know nothing about your story sir. How can you say that you’r better than us?”
“Fair enough officer, you have a point, but if we were like you, we would have attacked you long ago, since in your story you’ve started wars to show superiority and destroy other cultures, that your people considered inferior. Did we do something like that?”
“…No sir.”
“This should be enough to answer your question, good luck!”
The alien then entered his aircraft and launched it to the sky.
Lorenzo Bertini
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