“It is impossible to say what your species would have become, if the Chua had not interfered, and it is equally impossible to know whether it was those monkeys' destiny to be mutated and enslaved, but how long could you sit and watch sadists torturing cats or badgers? So it was for our forefathers. Our leaders spend a great deal of time worrying about the right time to leave you to get on with your lives, but we don't want to leave too early, because you could still not stand up to the Chua, or any of the others”.
“I suppose you could just give us the technology to defend ourselves, and then go, if that is what you want”.
They all looked at him as if he were an inattentive child. Joy spoke up.
“Do you really think that we would hand over the secrets of almost limitless power to the peop
