Blue-Koi

A Contest of Suffering A Short Story by Emily Weber     It was because of the sree that reptiles had become symbols of intelligence in the galaxy. They had no limbs, side-mounted eyes, thick, cumbersome, snake-like bodies, and, perhaps most notable of all: they were covered in electricity-sensing whiskers that looked for all the world like plain hair.     Sree whiskers sensed electricity so well that it was not unusual for a sree doctor to be able to pinpoint the exact location of a nerve through skin. It was this evolutionary advantage that made most sree born scientists. They often became engineers, chemists, inventors, physicists and th...