Challenge 472 - Cultural exchange

[m_findlow]

Title: Cultural exchange
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Gwen, Jack
Rating: PG
Challenge: 472 - Primitive at tw100
Notes: Gwen is learning that there are a lot more things in the universe

'What is it?' Gwen asked, peering at the view from the CCTV of the creature in the cells.

'Don't know,' Jack replied. 'All I can say is that when Ianto and I picked it up, it came quietly, almost as if it knew why we were there.'

'It looks like a monster,' she said. She didn't envy them the task of capturing it.

'Just because it looks scary doesn't make it primitive or unintelligent. There's plenty of monsters in this world that look safe on the outside, just as there are plenty of fearsome looking creatures that would hurt a fly. This thing didn't attack us. That makes me believe there's a good reason for it. What we need to do is to find a way to communicate with it.'

'You want to communicate with it? How?'

'We try whatever we can. Maybe it can't speak, but it might understand sign language or visual cues, it could be telepathic or maybe uses its sense of smell to tell friend from foe.'

'Sounds like a pretty rudimentary way of solving the problem.'

'It might seem primitive to you, but there's a thousand worlds out there that think we're the primitive ones.'

Comments

[bk_forever]

The 'monster' could be a highly intelligent and very civiised being.I like Jack's approach I'm sure they'll work out a method of communication.