( * You are in first person as Paul. Thoughts are kept simple due WIPED MEMORY * )
I wake up. The no-tails keep looking at the wall like something's about to happen. I'm in a corner. I took the fake furs off that somehow got onto me and I been sleeping on them. They seem to want me to keep them on. I just put them on when I wake up. They brought in soft furs to sleep with. They bring food too. They bring long orange things shaped like a line, and red circles. Sometimes green leaves, or rarely the entire ball of green leaves. I do my daily life, and they seem to study it non-stop. The door opens and a no-tail walks in, with something behind it. Whatever it is, it's shy and small. The no-tail turns to talk to whatever is behind it and leaves the room without it. It has the same band around its wrist as I do.
"So this is him?" a no-tail in the room said.
"Yup, this is Ben." a reply came.
I've ownly been able to understand little of the language the no-tails speak. They refer to me as Paul, and that one must be Ben. They say sit, and I say sit. They tell me stand, I stand.
"Paul." A no-tail said.
I walk up to the no-tail and look at it. I don't like no-tails. They have no tails, and their ears are hairless, round, small, and on the side of their heads. A no-tail walks to Ben and lures him to the center, it looks like. The no-tail I'm looking at points to the center of the room and I walk.
"Sit." The command comes.
I sit. The Ben seems confused. I softly tell it they want us to sit. It understands and just sits. I stare at it. Afted closer looks, it seems to look like me.His ears and tail are correct. His fur is grey though. My fur is brown. My hair is like the shadows. His is a color of.. I don't know it. It looks like a shade of one of the pictures in the center. I look down at it. His hair is the 3rd color on the rainbow. I don't havena spot there. I flick my tail around on the floor. He's not doing anything but staring back at me. I stand up and go to the reflective wall, but he stands up and follows me to do the same thing. I stare at the wall, and he stares at it too. He must think the reflection is a person. I go into my sleeping corner, and he follows. I grab a soft-fur from the corner and lay it next to where I sleep. I sit in my corner. Since I've got soft-furs, taking off fake furs aren't nessacary. Ben sits and stares at me. His tail wraps around exactly how I do it. He is good at learning. His ear fur is messy. Maybe if I clean my own ears, he'll mimic. I clean my ear by using the back of my hand to straighten the fur. He just stares. I do it again. Stare. I ask it. Can you talk? He is shy. He may or may not know how to speak or gibber like a no-tail. No matter. He can still learn. I flick my ear. Friend? He flicks his ear. Friend. The no-tails bring in food. One ball of leaves. I guess they forgot Ben. I look at them. No response. Maybe it's just for Ben. I break off a leaf and eat it. Ben mimics. We do the same thing until there is nothing left. The no-tails bring in something different. Little white cubes. I look at it. Ben just grabs it and eats it. I eat it too. It's good. I still taste it. Ben gets up and sits close to me. Is he lonely? Sad? I don't know. Hisntail is still. His ear fur is still messy. I clean his ear and he's still not moving. The no-tails bring in bigger, solid cubes with patterns on them and a big ball. Ben is more interested in the cubes, even though they aren't edible. I grab the ball and let it drop to the floor. It jumps back up. Not too interesting. I go to Ben. He's made a tower of blocks. The wall opens and a no-tail comes and puts something on the wall. It is black and flat. The no-tail pushes a button and a red monster starts talking.
"I'm Elmo! I am red like an ... apple!" It holds up the apple of an apple " My nose is as orange as ... a carrot!" It holds up an orange.
Amusing. I like it.