Lewis said, “And how many times do I have to remind you that you don’t have any proof?”
Linda said, “Well, where’s your proof? It seems to me you must have lost that cast you made of the ebu gogo footprint when the ebu gogo took your clothes.”
Lewis smiled. He unzipped a backpack he had taken onboard with him, and out hopped a laughing, chattering male ebu gogo. Lewis said, “This morning before the boat came I took a walk in the jungle and picked up this little guy.”
Linda frowned and said, “Well, I guess that’s that, Lewis. You are going to get all of the credit, and I am going to get none.”
Dr. Stern said, “Now just wait a minute. I think we all brought our own unique strengths, as well as weaknesses to this endeavor. What if we say that we all discovered the ebu gogo?”
Lewis repeated what Dr. Stern had said, trying the words in his mouth to see if he liked the way they felt. “We all discovered the ebu gogo.” Then, he turned to Linda and said, “We all discovered the ebu gogo. I like that.”
Linda took Lewis’s hand. She looked him in the eye and said, “I like the way that sounds very much. We all discovered the ebu gogo.”
Then Clare said, “Uh, guys? I hate that the youngest person here has to be the voice of reason, but we can’t tell anybody that we discovered the ebu gogo. Their existence must be kept secret.”
Everybody gave Clare inquisitive looks and asked, “Why?”
Clare said, “Jack was a furry, who wanted to have sex with an ebu gogo. And Martin was a repressed furry, who had sex with a lot of ebu gogo. Well, there are a whole lot more furries out there who, if they learned that the ebu gogo exists, would want to go to Flores and have sex with them. And as you all know, the ebu gogo are more than willing partners. I’m sure you can all imagine what would happen then.”
Lewis gave a disappointed sigh and said “You’re right. Mankind is not ready for the ebu gogo.” Then he added bitterly, “I don’t know if mankind will ever be ready.”
Lewis picked up the ebu gogo by the nape of its neck and brought it to the edge of the boat. He said, “I’m sorry little guy, but you can’t come to New York with us,” and threw the ebu gogo overboard into the sea below. The boat continued on towards the island of Java while the happy, chattering male ebu gogo drowned in its wake.
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