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We had coe of a veldt For the first tiht of the husteadily through the grass There must have been thirty of them, perhaps less

"And the Ice Age is yet to co to absorb and memorize the details of the enormous trees But even as I did so, I realized the forest had changed

"But look carefully at the hus," he said "Look " He pointed "What do you see?"

I narrowed my eyes and called upon my vampiric powers to observe more closely "Men and women, who look very similar to those of today Yes, I would say this is Homo sapiens sapiens I would say, they are our species "

"Exactly What do you notice about their faces?"

"That they have distinct expressions that seem entirely ; soy-hairedbehind, he seee breasts¡ªare you sure she can't see us?"

"She can't She'sin this direction What differentiates her from the men?"

"Well, her breasts, clearly, and the fact that she is beardless The er of course, and well, she's pretty; she's delicate of bone; she's fe an infant, but the others are She iven birth "

He nodded

It did seeaze as I did ist would call Cro-Magnon; there was nothing apelike about her, or about her kin She wasn't fair, however, her skin was dark golden, rather like that of the Semitic or Arab peoples, like His skin in Heaven AboveHer dark hair lifted exquisitely in the wind as she turned and moved forward

"These people are all naked "

Meh

We moved back into the forest; the veldt vanished The air was thick and rant around us

Towering over us were immense conifers and ferns Never had I seen ferns of this size, their er by far than the blades of banana trees, and as for the conifers, I could only coreat, barbaric redwoods of the western California forests trees which have always made me feel alone and afraid

He continued to lead us, oblivious to this swars slithered past us; there were muted roars in the distance The earth itself was layered over with green growth, velvety, ruckled, and so rocks!