Assorted Flash Fiction Writings
Copyright© 2024 by Chaon
Humans tame Eldritch beings.
“Yeah, I stopped questioning how and why humans do things after they somehow managed to tame an eldritch being and called it Cuddles.”
[Eldritch report#229503-D7; Humanity and their adoption of Eldritch entities]
When we first encountered Humanity, we had no idea of what we were helping launch itself across the galaxy.
They were slowly spreading across 17 star systems around their home system when the Council first contacted them via an exploration vessel. Normal diplomatic processes happened and humans were able to purchase plans and education materials for much faster warp drives and various advanced (to them) ship devices as well as devices for their civilian infrastructure. Included was a ‘universal’ translator that made communicating much easier.
Six years after their introduction into the galaxy, singular humans and family units started to appear with a ‘pet’. At first glance this pet wasn’t strange, a water loving creature with a mass of tentacles and capable of basic communicating, so it was possibly on the sentient spectrum.
When various authorities tried to examine this pet, the humans were very protective of it and insisted that it was still unused to strange beings, so they would rather not overwhelm it with too many people poking and proding at it. They produced human authority reports describing the creature and confirming it was not a biological threat to anyone.
So far no non-human authority has done any type of detailed examination of this pet but we have been watching them at a low level. The unknown is dangerous because we simply don’t know what it can do.
This changed 3 weeks ago when a human child was walking with it’s pet and a gang of criminals decided that kidnapping for ransom was a bright idea. They quickly grabbed the child, a 8 year old girl named Susan, and her pet and took them to a storage facility on the edge of the city where the humans lived.
They placed the girl and her pet in a room with some food and water and facilities as they didn’t know how long it would take to get the ransom. They contacted the humans and made their demands and since they had a reasonably good tech with them, they were able to hide their position and how they could hack into the communications network to make their demands.
When the humans demanded proof that their child was safe and sound along with her pet, one of the gang decided to teach the humans a lesson for making demands. They went into the room and brought the girl out along with her pet and made threats to harm the pet in front of the girl.
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