[ WP ] `` Look , '' it said . `` The humans have come . ''

I had watched them for a while... It was my place to keep watch for them. They were so weak, and fragile, it was our fear they would be wiped out before they had a chance to mature. Far before their time they were trying to reach out to us. Touching the great blackness with their chunks of fire and earth. We worried that if we did not remember them, we might miss them when they came. If some met them here first... The humans would no longer be with us at all. 
 
 Their bodies could not take it, the blackness... Their minds did not have the years to fix what was broken. Nor even could they see what was broken until it was too late. Many died for their foolishness. It was only their impossible lack of knowledge that let them gain ground however. If they had known perhaps they would not have ever tried. They were odd that way. 
 The way they went about things was so strange... Pressing forward, without really knowing anything, looking at the mistakes, and then trying again... Often with an approach that looked much the same. But over time... Little changes made it whole. It only worked because they never stopped breeding. Or maybe it was because they never stopped breeding that they learned that way... I was not to know. 
 
 `` Look,'' It said, `` the humans have come.'' 
 
 And so they had... Though their work was not perfect, though they would n't last more than a century that way. They came, they chose a planet and they took it for their own, they would begin living on it. It was a motion, and one they should not yet have taken... They were not nearly ready for the declaration they had made. But we watched them. So they would live, at least what life they had.
