- Roger, come here. Run, look at him, he's amazing.
- What are you talking about? He's nothing but a monkey.
- But this monkey is different, they say he's the smartest, most well-behaved, calm, and obedient of all the monkeys.
- Yeah, but the fact that he's not as furry as the others bothers me. Plus, he's one of the few that, for no clear reason, is always covering his reproductive organs.
- That's the funniest part, hahaha. And it's surprising how sometimes they try to repeat our words, they almost do it as well as parrots, and they don't even have feathers.
- I remember reading in a book that these monkeys used to be much more intelligent, they wore clothes like ours and had a language of their own, but for some reason no one knows, over time they forgot even basic things, like tying their own shoelaces.
- And do you actually believe that?
- No, but it's fun to imagine. How could a being not made of aluminum develop neural networks, when that requires central cores like ours? They barely have a primitive brain.
- I don't know. I just hope that book you're talking about isn't the same crazy book Tomás's father read, the one that claims these beings created our intelligence, and that our race then created a physical body and took control of their planet.
- I hope not. Because after reading it, Tomás's father never showed up again.