@"A M E N O"
It had occurred to the child to wonder if maybe the school was right - that maybe there was no pointing, since they were always hungry anyway. That didn't really make sense, though. Eating was what black holes did. That was what their mom had taught them to do. And everyone agreed that hunger, the desire to consume foodstuffs, meant that one should eat.
Maybe the black hole child just needed vastly more food than the people here? Maybe. They didn't know, and how could they? Their mother was not available to ask, if she even knew, and no one else had come close to even meeting a black hole.
Right now, though, was not the right time for questioning the world. Right now was the right time to learn how to use a utensil efficiently.
... It wasn't going so well. Their hands were too small, and while they could sometimes have more or less fingers size wasn't something they knew how to really mess with at will.
The food-provider was talking, and the black hole child quickly glanced sideways. "SK?" That was a cool name. "I don't have a name."
It had occurred to the child to wonder if maybe the school was right - that maybe there was no pointing, since they were always hungry anyway. That didn't really make sense, though. Eating was what black holes did. That was what their mom had taught them to do. And everyone agreed that hunger, the desire to consume foodstuffs, meant that one should eat.
Maybe the black hole child just needed vastly more food than the people here? Maybe. They didn't know, and how could they? Their mother was not available to ask, if she even knew, and no one else had come close to even meeting a black hole.
Right now, though, was not the right time for questioning the world. Right now was the right time to learn how to use a utensil efficiently.
... It wasn't going so well. Their hands were too small, and while they could sometimes have more or less fingers size wasn't something they knew how to really mess with at will.
The food-provider was talking, and the black hole child quickly glanced sideways. "SK?" That was a cool name. "I don't have a name."