The Princess of Symbiosis
Even calling it face-to-face isn’t quite appropriate. What we would call a face was a dark mass of skin, tendrils, and something that vaguely looked like ears. Every screen and television in the world was trained on these creatures, and no one really knew what they were looking at. Star Wars, District 9, and Avatar had ill-prepared humanity to confront the fact that aliens couldn’t have two eyes and a mouth. Surprisingly, these aliens were not that far ahead of our 22nd century technology....