A telepath reads a human mind. They were almost overwhelmed while reading this:
-- Anon Guest
Human contact is not for the uninitiated, especially when one is a Melil. Their species is one of the few that developed natural telepathy. It was something of a shock to all that their gift could be used to read the thoughts of other species.
That said, other species do not have the mental capacity of silencing their unbidden thoughts like the Melil can, and asking them to do so is worse than counterproductive. Worse so with Humans. Imagine being the poor Melil who encountered the very first Human.
Now imagine being a Melil teen who decided that the new restrictions were too restrictive and struck out on hir own for the Edge Territories to learn for themselves about the dangerous new cogniscent life form eking out an existence there. Which is exactly what Beni was doing.
The livesuit concealed hir face, and protected hir body from anything deadly that might be within the less regulated space of the Edge. Ze thought ze was prepared for anything. Ze was not prepared to meet a young Human close to hir own age. Ze was definitely not prepared for Human's memetic mental processes. Especially when the young Human realised that they were falling in love.
Beni had no idea what ze had done to warrant it, but the Human had a perpetual soundtrack, and this was an alarming and abrupt change. The whistle built ominously, implying something was going to burst forth... and burst forth it did.
The Human Daz's head was full of screaming. Now? So was Beni's. This was supposedly linked to great joy for Human Daz but all Beni could hear was the screaming. There was no other sound. There was no other sight but roaring dinosaurs, for some reason.
There was no other moral but, Listen to your Elders, they know things.
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