A few years back all the animals went away.
We woke up one morning, and they just weren't there anymore.
They didn't even leave us a note or say goodbye. We never
figured out quite where they'd gone.
We missed them.
Some of us thought, that the world had ended,
but it hadn't. There just weren't anymore animals.
No cats or rabbits, no dogs or wails or fish in
the seas, no birds in the skies.
We were all alone.
We didn't know what to do. We wondered around lost for a time
and then someone pointed out that just beacause we didn't
have anymore animals it was no reason to change our lives.
No reason to change our diets. Or disease testing broducts
that might cause us harm. After all there was still babies.
Babies can't talk. They can hardly move. A baby is not a rational
thinking creature.
We made babies.
And we used them.
Some of them we ate. Baby flesh is ternder and socullant. We flaid their
sking and decorated ouselves in it. Baby leather is soft and
confortable.
Some of them we tested. We taped open their eyes dripped
deturtions and shampoos in, a drop at a time. We scarred them and
scalded them, we burned them, we clamped them and planted electrodes
into their brains. We crafted and we froze and we radiated. The babies
breathed our smoke and the babies vains flode with our medicines and
drugs until they stopped breathing or until their blood ceased to flow.
It was hard of course. But it was seccesary. No one could deny that.
With the animals gone what else could we do? Some people complained
of course. But then, they always do. And everything went back to normal.
Only... yesterday all the babies were gone. We don't know where they
went. We didn't even see them go. We don't know what we are going
to do without them.
But we'll think of something. Humans are smart. It's what makes us
superior to the animals and the babies.
We'll figure something out.