I decided to try to find some answers by going to this place full of scrolls called a library. While I didn’t find something explicitly stating why humans are averse to the suggestion of reproduction, I did find something quite useful. It was a book about anatomy. Female anatomy, to be precise. I analyzed the book carefully, and I discovered that the beings with lumps are a variety known as female. The ones who look more like us are known as male. I took home both anatomy books and studied them thoroughly. At first, while looking through the female book, I though that maybe all humans had different anatomy than ourselves. I later learned that this was not the case, as the male book’s diagrams seemed to be virtually indistinguishable from a diagram of the Taranian body. All of our organs and limbs were in the same place.

There was one thing most peculiar in this male anatomy book, however. While these humans had the same part for urination that we have, it seemed that there’s had the capacity to grow at will. The book showed two examples of what they called the “penis”. One of which looked quite like ours, and the other was long and jutted out rather than hanging down. At first I thought this was just one of the many varieties among human anatomy, like how some humans are wider than others, but it seemed this particular example showed something that is experienced by virtually all male humans. Upon further reading, I learned that the human body essentially transforms when the creature is “aroused”. I didn’t understand what aroused meant at the time. I thought perhaps it meant when waking up. It seemed this part of the body woke up as well. However, in all my 102 zalors of life, the limb between my legs had not once awoken. I felt strangely jealous of this phenomenon, but I couldn’t comprehend why. I decided to write this off as a noticeable difference between the human and Taranian species.

Now that I could tell the general difference between the male and female species, I figured my quest would go a lot easier. However, although the book mentioned the parts between the legs as reproductive organs, it didn’t go particularly in depth about how exactly a human goes about reproducing. However, I felt rather confident in that my reproductive organs looked quite similar to that which was shown in the male anatomy book.

I went back out into the town with hopes of getting more information from the library, however, I didn’t yet have a good sense of direction in this unusual place, and I ended up very lost. I didn’t recognize a single building in this narrow street that I had wandered into, and before I knew it, the sun had begun to set. I went around a corner with hopes that I could find someone or something to assist me on my return home, when I passed by a very interesting building. There were photographs of females on the cover, and the sign said “books”, making it appear to be a bookstore specializing in books specifically about the female part of the human species. I simply had to take a look.

I went into the store, and sure enough, there were females everywhere. What was even more fascinating and coincidental was that it seemed to be focusing expressly on their anatomy and reproductive organs. Many books and films were displayed with women’s legs spread in a way to present their organs to the viewer. This seemed to be an educational facility. So, I went up the the clerk and told him that I would very much like to learn about the fascinating creatures displayed on his shelves.

He laughed and seemed happy to hear this. He recommended a certain item and placed it on the counter. It wasn’t a book, to my surprise, but something called a film or movie, events captured on camera in motion.

“Is it educational?” I asked, “will I learn a lot about females and reproduction?”

“Oh yeah, it’s educational all right,” the man said with a smirk.

I smiled and told him I’d take it. He told me I could watch it in a small room in the store, which was very much appreciated, because it occurred to me that my ship wouldn’t have a device that would be able to activate this foreign object.