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heir own, but the
elders had detected dead things that could receive our signals, and tell
these other living things about us. That scared me. It must have scared the
elders much more, since they told me never to do what I had done again,
and broadcasted the message of shame across the entire colony. Cloaked in
shame, I was ordered back to my domain. Here I snuck into my cave, and
shut the opening into the rest of the colony.
What the elders had said made me think. There were
other thinking, living beings near us. The thought had never crossed my
mind. If it were true... wouldn't that mean that I could pick up their mental
signals? But the elders had said that they were incapable of communicating
mentally. Yet their minds, if they were as intelligent as the elders thought,
must give off some sort of radiation nevertheless. I set out to discover one
of these others. I decided that they could not inhabit this clump of dead
stuff that we did, since no Gruikk had ever seen one up close. Yet after a
while
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