Chapter 4: First(second) Contact

The story by General Fealia of Deya on finding the humans continued:

When we were in orbit the captain decided that we needed to be further from the planet than before in case they can detect us in orbit too.

Then we started going through what went wrong on the mission.

The first thing we found that apparently we had arrived on the first day of deer season, thus the forests were full of hunters who were actively looking for creatures a bit like us to hunt.

The second was that we had not paid enough attention to the carnivores that the humans had domesticated.

The first was easy enough to fix, just check when hunting is on in any region.

The second needed more research – Apparently these “dogs” were apex pack hunters that the humans had domesticated before their written history to function as guards and helpers in hunting. It seems like the dogs had hunted humans before that as their old name wolf. The fact that humans were also basically pack hunters seemingly helped them to bond into new packs lead by a human. Apparently humans have much better vision, but the dogs had a much better smell discrimination.

What an ingenious way to turn a problem into an asset.

So with these things in mind we started looking for a new place and target, it would need to be someone who would not be in a deer hunting area and would not have a dog.

Overall the planning took almost two more weeks.

So we found our next target in an area named Arizona near a place called Whiteriver. Again a confusing name as the nearby river was not any more white than any other river.

The area was much more dry with lot less vegetation, but the many ridges and canyons would provide us with enough cover.

Also the flight path was changed in that we would come down in one area, close to a town called Roswell in an area called New Mexico. That name also confused us as that was apparently part of the political entity called United States, but really close there was another political entity Mexico. But anyway, we would then fly through some canyons and over some forested areas to the target area about 400 kilometers away.

The plan is set to motion and the insertion works without any problems, though our sensor operator says that there were suddenly a lot of those flying military aircraft taking off nearby and heading to the location that we went down on, but apparently they could not find us when we were flying low and faster than their speed. So we made our way to the cabin of our target and did not see any of the military flying things come anywhere near unlike what we saw in the previous insert, so the scary looking low level flying seemed to have worked.

Our target was an older man, with wrinkled a bit reddish skin, that we then observed for a day.

During that day he did some working on a small garden he had, seemed to do some behavior that looked like rituals and sat around for hours seemingly working on a small wooden object with a knife.

So next day we decided to approach him.

Next morning after he had done his thing in the garden early on and had sat down to work on the wooden object again, I got up from my hiding place and started walking towards him slowly.

His eyes followed my progress, but he did not rect in any other way until I was fairly close when he got up and bowed slightly to me. He then said something in an unknown language.

I then stopped, about 15 meters from him now, and greeted in him what we understood was the greeting in the area “Howdy there stranger”.