The Drilling
Nov 10, 2022 11:59:44 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Nov 10, 2022 11:59:44 GMT -5
It was the year 2525, and an interplanetary war between alien Reptilians and humanoids had been going on for decades. It had been instant animosity at first sight. An instinctive inter-species mutual revulsion that had led to an intense and seemingly irrational effort at mutual annhilation.
You see, from the humanoid standpoint, reasoning Reptilians were an aberration of nature, and nothing less, an aberation that needed to be obliterated from existence. The reptilians had felt the same way about humanoids. So after a few formal halfhearted efforts at resolving some minor border disputes, both sides dispensed with diplomacies and immediatly went in for the kill.
Furious battles were fought, but a stalemate had finally been reached and an agreement of a peace- treaty was being reluctantly negotiated at the United Nations with the recently-arrived ill-tempered and thoroughly disgruntled reptilian ambassadors. It was during those political proceedings that the following historically-significant incident I am about to describe, transpired.
It was becoming late evening at the Alpha Centaurian B planet’s spaceport’s Emergency Medical Center, a huge facility constructed to deal with humanoid medical emergencies. There, in its dentistry section, for the first time, and as a gesture of good will and mutual cooperation for peace from both sides, the drilling of a reptilian’s tooth had been going on.
After two full hours, finally, the humaoid dentist, a green-skinned Alpha-Centaurian-born humanoid, announced that the tooth was ready to be filled. Three drills had been blunted in the process, and he was drenched in sweat from the furious effort that had been required to penetrate the thick, diamantine-like alien reptilian enamel and its equally hard dentine. But he had finally managed to excavate deep enough and to carve the necessary undercuts to provide a solid foundation for the repair material.
Strangely, his regular assistant had suddenly taken ill and he was being assisted by a recently-arrived, freckled- faced, red-headed human female from the planet Earth, who, after two hours of being totally silent and very cooperative, had suddenly, and inexplicably decided to ask:
“Excuse me doctor! But shouldn’t that drilling have taken only twenty minutes instead of two long hours?"
"Not in this particular case Esmeralda!" the doctor responded nervously.
"Why not in this particular case, doctor?" Esmeralda continued in a language that was clearly understood by the reptilian patient who had been sitting calmly, with its crimson, reptiian eyes shut until her question had been asked. There was a tense and prolonged silence before the doctor, now feeling as if he were suddenly on trial, finally replied.
”For medical professional reasons that really should be none of your concern." he said, while giving Esmeralda the sternest look that he could muster in hopes of keeping her from continuing this line of questioning which could potentially lead to an unpleasantness that he would rather avoid at all costs.
He knew just how sensitive alien reptilians were to acts of discrimination experienced at the hands of humanoids, and didn't want this one getting the notion that he had been drilling his tooth for two full hours without administering any anesthesia, just to see him squirm in agony. Although, he did have to admit, that seeing the repilian squirm, did bring him a measure of satisfaction, since his luxurious abode had been destroyed during a reptilian raid. But such things things were done on both sides, and he had agreed that they needed to be forgotten for the sake of peace.
“The reason I ask,” Esmeralda continued in a soft, sweet, voice which exuded innocence of any maliscious intent, “...is because according to my very extensive training back on Earth, doctor, such prolonged and extensive drilling is never needed for the kind of simple carie that this gentle reptilian presented. But even in such less serious cases, anesthetics are always admnistered. “
At this, the reptilian's breathing-rate increased, its ivory-white cranial crest flushed crimson, and its eyes, that had been semi-shut during the entire procedure, suddenly opened widly and began swiveling rapidly suspiciously from side to side. Despite the safe drug developed by the Earthian miitary, that had been administered to dull its senses, It suddenly noticed that the doctor was perspiring profusely and that the odour of his perspiration was of profound fear generated by concerns of justifiable reprisal.
That alone would have been sufficient in former times for the reptilian to have swiftly severed a humanoid’s head clean off from his shoulders, but because of the recent peace treaty which had been finally agreed upon after 20 years of constant, savage warfare, he was reluctant to be the one to cause an incident that would reignite human vs reptilian hostilities. So he controled his growing anger and waited for the doctor’s explanation.
Noticing that the reptilian had become tense, the doctor began repairing the cavity as quickly as he could. The sooner the alien reptilan was out of his office, the better. He also decided that he would fire the assistant. But not in front of the Reptilian, since he didn’t know what else she would say if angered. So in calculated silence, he hastily began the repair. He would leave out insulation against sensitivity to heat and cold to cut down on time. The point was to get it out of the office as soon as possible.
But nervousness made his hands shake, and he began to fumble the intruments. Some he dropped onto the floor, making a big racket and causing the reptilian to grunt. Suddenly the reptilian began to grimace and groan at the slightest pain, wheeras before, it had been accepting everything as normal.
At that point, the assistant turned on the elevated TV holographic screen, and dialed it to the subspace channel featuring the recent meeting between humans and reptilans that was occuring at the United nations. Each side was vehemently expressing its viewpoint. The cession had comenced peacefully enough, but then had gradually deteriorated into threats of hostility renewals when compromises were controversial.
As the arguments over galactic territorial jursdictions became more heated, the Earthian dental assistant, Esmeralda, gradually and delicately turned up the volume with her remote as she gazed at the reptilian with an intense scrutinizing interest. Meanwhile, the reptilian began to fidget in his chair, causing the Earthian dentist to fumble and unintentionally inflict two painful jabs with a sharp instrument.
“Sorry!” he immediately said, placing a comforting humanoid hand on the reptilan’s exposed scaly shoulder. The detection of the nonhuman physique made him recoil instantly, and he wondered whether there indeed could ever be any genuine peace between two species so vastly different physiologically. In turn, the Reptilian, who had been totally silent during the previous agonizing two hours, but who noticed his reaction of revusion, finally spoke.
“I have a question doctor!”
"Shoot!” the doctor immediately said as nonchallantly and as confidently as possible. He was well-aware of the alien reptilian abilty to detect nervousness and accurately analyze emotions based on human body scents. In fact, that is why, once informed that his next patient was to be an Alien Reptilian, he had rubbed generous amounts of after-shave lotion all over his body to prevent any possible misunderstandings.
“Why have I not been provided with pain- killers for this procedure, doctor?” the reptilian hissed more than it uttered and then flicked his forked purple tongue twice.
“Well, that’s a very good queston, and I can understand why you are concerned! I sure as hell would be!”
“Yes, it does deeply concern me!” the reptilian hissed in what the doctor understood as an extremely hurt tone of voice.
“Well, you see, this is an emergency facilty designed specifically for the care of humanoids from different sectors of the galaxy.”
“Do your humanoid patients receive painkillers, doctor?”
“Yes! Of course they do. But that’s because we are familiar with their body chemistry and can be absolutely certain that we will not kill the patient by introducing a harmful substance! You can uderstand that-right? You have heard about such cases-correct? ”
“Yes! I am able to fully comprehend it. Yet, there is a certain strangeness involved here doctor”“
“A strangeness?” the doctor asked nervously shifting his weight from foot to foot as if ready to bolt. He had been pressing the emergency signalng device in his pocket, but it was either inoperative, or else he was being purposefully ignored. But if so, why? Usually the slightest signal immediaely brought security presonel. Yet Now nothing.
“Yes doctor, a certain strangeness.” the reptilian continued. Why did you not explain this matter in this same detailed manner to the Earthian assistant who asked you? Why all this cunning evasion, doctor?”
“Exactly what I have been wondering ever since I calmly asked him,” the female human assistant said energetically while giving the doctor an intense suspicious look, and smiling sarcastically as if convinced that the doctor was guilty of purposeful malptractice via influiction of unecessary pain.
“Why not explain this to me before I trustingly and stupidly agreed to permit a filthy humanoid like you to work on my teeth? Have I no right at all to know? What do you think that we are, animals?”
“Ýeah! What do you think that they are doctor, lower animals? Or Is it because they attacked your location during a recent raid? Is that why you did it doctor? Is that why? ” the assistant shouted while pointing an accusatory index finger at the doctor who had accidentally sliced the reptilian’s gum as he suddenly backed away, and which finally provoked the reptilian to instinctively leap from the seat and sever the doctor’s head clean off his shoulders with one swift swipe of its dagger-clawed reptilian paw.
Later, that week, during a secret meeting, agent Esmeralda was formally introduced to other members of the League of Humanoid Planets on Alpha Centauri b and was generously rewarded by the Earthian authorities there for having provoked the incident that would perpetuate the interplanetary war and keep the war-material manufacturers there raking in the profits.
“Job well done!” she was told amidst a flurry of appluase while she beamed proudly.
You see, from the humanoid standpoint, reasoning Reptilians were an aberration of nature, and nothing less, an aberation that needed to be obliterated from existence. The reptilians had felt the same way about humanoids. So after a few formal halfhearted efforts at resolving some minor border disputes, both sides dispensed with diplomacies and immediatly went in for the kill.
Furious battles were fought, but a stalemate had finally been reached and an agreement of a peace- treaty was being reluctantly negotiated at the United Nations with the recently-arrived ill-tempered and thoroughly disgruntled reptilian ambassadors. It was during those political proceedings that the following historically-significant incident I am about to describe, transpired.
It was becoming late evening at the Alpha Centaurian B planet’s spaceport’s Emergency Medical Center, a huge facility constructed to deal with humanoid medical emergencies. There, in its dentistry section, for the first time, and as a gesture of good will and mutual cooperation for peace from both sides, the drilling of a reptilian’s tooth had been going on.
After two full hours, finally, the humaoid dentist, a green-skinned Alpha-Centaurian-born humanoid, announced that the tooth was ready to be filled. Three drills had been blunted in the process, and he was drenched in sweat from the furious effort that had been required to penetrate the thick, diamantine-like alien reptilian enamel and its equally hard dentine. But he had finally managed to excavate deep enough and to carve the necessary undercuts to provide a solid foundation for the repair material.
Strangely, his regular assistant had suddenly taken ill and he was being assisted by a recently-arrived, freckled- faced, red-headed human female from the planet Earth, who, after two hours of being totally silent and very cooperative, had suddenly, and inexplicably decided to ask:
“Excuse me doctor! But shouldn’t that drilling have taken only twenty minutes instead of two long hours?"
"Not in this particular case Esmeralda!" the doctor responded nervously.
"Why not in this particular case, doctor?" Esmeralda continued in a language that was clearly understood by the reptilian patient who had been sitting calmly, with its crimson, reptiian eyes shut until her question had been asked. There was a tense and prolonged silence before the doctor, now feeling as if he were suddenly on trial, finally replied.
”For medical professional reasons that really should be none of your concern." he said, while giving Esmeralda the sternest look that he could muster in hopes of keeping her from continuing this line of questioning which could potentially lead to an unpleasantness that he would rather avoid at all costs.
He knew just how sensitive alien reptilians were to acts of discrimination experienced at the hands of humanoids, and didn't want this one getting the notion that he had been drilling his tooth for two full hours without administering any anesthesia, just to see him squirm in agony. Although, he did have to admit, that seeing the repilian squirm, did bring him a measure of satisfaction, since his luxurious abode had been destroyed during a reptilian raid. But such things things were done on both sides, and he had agreed that they needed to be forgotten for the sake of peace.
“The reason I ask,” Esmeralda continued in a soft, sweet, voice which exuded innocence of any maliscious intent, “...is because according to my very extensive training back on Earth, doctor, such prolonged and extensive drilling is never needed for the kind of simple carie that this gentle reptilian presented. But even in such less serious cases, anesthetics are always admnistered. “
At this, the reptilian's breathing-rate increased, its ivory-white cranial crest flushed crimson, and its eyes, that had been semi-shut during the entire procedure, suddenly opened widly and began swiveling rapidly suspiciously from side to side. Despite the safe drug developed by the Earthian miitary, that had been administered to dull its senses, It suddenly noticed that the doctor was perspiring profusely and that the odour of his perspiration was of profound fear generated by concerns of justifiable reprisal.
That alone would have been sufficient in former times for the reptilian to have swiftly severed a humanoid’s head clean off from his shoulders, but because of the recent peace treaty which had been finally agreed upon after 20 years of constant, savage warfare, he was reluctant to be the one to cause an incident that would reignite human vs reptilian hostilities. So he controled his growing anger and waited for the doctor’s explanation.
Noticing that the reptilian had become tense, the doctor began repairing the cavity as quickly as he could. The sooner the alien reptilan was out of his office, the better. He also decided that he would fire the assistant. But not in front of the Reptilian, since he didn’t know what else she would say if angered. So in calculated silence, he hastily began the repair. He would leave out insulation against sensitivity to heat and cold to cut down on time. The point was to get it out of the office as soon as possible.
But nervousness made his hands shake, and he began to fumble the intruments. Some he dropped onto the floor, making a big racket and causing the reptilian to grunt. Suddenly the reptilian began to grimace and groan at the slightest pain, wheeras before, it had been accepting everything as normal.
At that point, the assistant turned on the elevated TV holographic screen, and dialed it to the subspace channel featuring the recent meeting between humans and reptilans that was occuring at the United nations. Each side was vehemently expressing its viewpoint. The cession had comenced peacefully enough, but then had gradually deteriorated into threats of hostility renewals when compromises were controversial.
As the arguments over galactic territorial jursdictions became more heated, the Earthian dental assistant, Esmeralda, gradually and delicately turned up the volume with her remote as she gazed at the reptilian with an intense scrutinizing interest. Meanwhile, the reptilian began to fidget in his chair, causing the Earthian dentist to fumble and unintentionally inflict two painful jabs with a sharp instrument.
“Sorry!” he immediately said, placing a comforting humanoid hand on the reptilan’s exposed scaly shoulder. The detection of the nonhuman physique made him recoil instantly, and he wondered whether there indeed could ever be any genuine peace between two species so vastly different physiologically. In turn, the Reptilian, who had been totally silent during the previous agonizing two hours, but who noticed his reaction of revusion, finally spoke.
“I have a question doctor!”
"Shoot!” the doctor immediately said as nonchallantly and as confidently as possible. He was well-aware of the alien reptilian abilty to detect nervousness and accurately analyze emotions based on human body scents. In fact, that is why, once informed that his next patient was to be an Alien Reptilian, he had rubbed generous amounts of after-shave lotion all over his body to prevent any possible misunderstandings.
“Why have I not been provided with pain- killers for this procedure, doctor?” the reptilian hissed more than it uttered and then flicked his forked purple tongue twice.
“Well, that’s a very good queston, and I can understand why you are concerned! I sure as hell would be!”
“Yes, it does deeply concern me!” the reptilian hissed in what the doctor understood as an extremely hurt tone of voice.
“Well, you see, this is an emergency facilty designed specifically for the care of humanoids from different sectors of the galaxy.”
“Do your humanoid patients receive painkillers, doctor?”
“Yes! Of course they do. But that’s because we are familiar with their body chemistry and can be absolutely certain that we will not kill the patient by introducing a harmful substance! You can uderstand that-right? You have heard about such cases-correct? ”
“Yes! I am able to fully comprehend it. Yet, there is a certain strangeness involved here doctor”“
“A strangeness?” the doctor asked nervously shifting his weight from foot to foot as if ready to bolt. He had been pressing the emergency signalng device in his pocket, but it was either inoperative, or else he was being purposefully ignored. But if so, why? Usually the slightest signal immediaely brought security presonel. Yet Now nothing.
“Yes doctor, a certain strangeness.” the reptilian continued. Why did you not explain this matter in this same detailed manner to the Earthian assistant who asked you? Why all this cunning evasion, doctor?”
“Exactly what I have been wondering ever since I calmly asked him,” the female human assistant said energetically while giving the doctor an intense suspicious look, and smiling sarcastically as if convinced that the doctor was guilty of purposeful malptractice via influiction of unecessary pain.
“Why not explain this to me before I trustingly and stupidly agreed to permit a filthy humanoid like you to work on my teeth? Have I no right at all to know? What do you think that we are, animals?”
“Ýeah! What do you think that they are doctor, lower animals? Or Is it because they attacked your location during a recent raid? Is that why you did it doctor? Is that why? ” the assistant shouted while pointing an accusatory index finger at the doctor who had accidentally sliced the reptilian’s gum as he suddenly backed away, and which finally provoked the reptilian to instinctively leap from the seat and sever the doctor’s head clean off his shoulders with one swift swipe of its dagger-clawed reptilian paw.
Later, that week, during a secret meeting, agent Esmeralda was formally introduced to other members of the League of Humanoid Planets on Alpha Centauri b and was generously rewarded by the Earthian authorities there for having provoked the incident that would perpetuate the interplanetary war and keep the war-material manufacturers there raking in the profits.
“Job well done!” she was told amidst a flurry of appluase while she beamed proudly.