ANDROGYNEA

This is only the beginning.


My observations since arriving in this strange land are as follows:

    It is a temperate climate, with lush vegetation surrounding the city.  Temperatures seem to be between sixty-five degrees at night and seventy-eight degrees in the daytime.  A one hour rain falls at the sixth hour each night to hydrate the vegetation and to replenish the city’s water source.  The air is neither humid nor dry and seems to be without any known pollutants or pollens.
    Day and night seem equally distributed as if in a perpetual equinox.  At dusk and dawn the sun and moon appear on opposing sides of the horizon.  To the uneducated, it would appear that the moon is chasing the sun across the night sky. The moon remains full each evening unlike the waxing and waning of earth’s moon.  There is one anomaly, however.  Every 30 days the moon appears blood red and no rain falls throughout the night.
    The indigenous population appear to be androgynous clones.  There is no differentiation between sexes and age seems to be the only distinguishing factor.  There also seems to be an equal number of young and old.  By my calculation, their lives run in fifteen year cycles.  From birth to fifteen, fifteen to thirty, and so on, to ninety years of age when they die.  Each person has an assigned duty, and, at the cycle end, another generation takes their place.  No duty is more, or less, important than another as all share in every aspect of responsibility from birth to death.  Each generation teaches the next and shares in the upbringing and training to the third generation.  Parent teaching child and grandchild to preserve the knowledge and the race. 
    It is hard to say how it all began or how each individual’s function was initially determined.  I have found no written records.  They seem to communicate telepathically.  Instruction is given and understood without utterance.  They go about their daily routines without disruption.  None have taken notice of me as I walk among them.  They are indifferent and emotionless when I observe them from afar or up close.  They are nearly mechanical, although they do breathe, eat, sleep and perform other bodily functions much like humans.          

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