[ WP ] god 's engineer finally emailed him back : `` I got the new designs for these 'humans ' , but there is n't enough room in the budget for this 'love ' you wanted them to have . Something else has got to go . ''

`` Guess we got ta ditch flight,'' he sighed. `` Probably have to chuck telekinesis out the door, too.'' 
 
 He stared out the porthole at the field of stars beyond. 
 
 `` They're just gon na be hairless apes,'' he said mournfully. `` Here I was thinking I'd be able to make something more interesting than the native wildlife for once. But if they have no capacity for affection - their society will never make it off the ground.'' 
 
 He looked down at the blueprints, years of work on a flight mechanism that would now go to waste. `` Goddamn budget-cutters,'' he muttered. `` If God was n't trying to build sixty million species at once, we'd be able to make ten or twelve million good ones.''
