ESTHAAN
"Very human, is my snap reaction. He has the same number of fingers and features, his joints work like ours, and his skin texture — a feature on which i place great hunch reliance — is a cream-yellow version of my own brown. Eyes round, with laugh lines, and his smile shows human teeth with an extra pair of frontals. All quite standard except that his torso looks a trifle thick or blocky."
"'These owl-eyed marshmallows'"
"I rip the pilots clothes, exposing his swollen body. Two great angry scars run from each pubic ligament to above the crest of the pelvis."
"A supreme convulsion sweeps the Esthaan and the two gashes in his flanks swell, pulse, and slowly evert themselves like giant pea pods turning inside out. Amass of wriggling blobs of flesh tumbles down his sides. He screams."
James Tiptree Jr., Your Haploid Heart
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