[ WP ] It started out as an alien invasion , but they eventually just assimilated into Earth culture .

I was apprehensive, at first, but I've come to accept the Men. 
 
 They itch - that's for sure - but I've been around a long time, and all itches eventually go away. I could scratch, yeah, but who knows how long it'll be before I get this opportunity again. 
 
 I ca n't talk to most of them. The vast majority do n't even know I'm available to listen. 
 
 But the ones that can hear me - we have such wonderful talks. And it's been such a relief - after aeons of drifting through the void, circling Sol over and over and over... 
 
 It started with a pinprick in my southern hemisphere. A tiny, hot meteoroid with just the right soup of amino acids. I nurtured it in the womb of my still-violent seas. It sprouted, it split, it swelled. I slept for a while. When I woke, it could speak. 
 
 I'll be sad when they leave. They've already made quite a few trips out. Once, they even set foot on my sad, pale little sister. They've got quite a ways to go, but I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later. 
 
 And then I'll be back to just drifting and circling until Sol eventually closes her arms around me and brings me back home. 
 
 Until then, I'll enjoy our conversations. 

