C'EST LA GUERRE (61)

We entered the hangar where between cold and silent gloom, there were two illuminated areas very far between: the council table and the curtains that concealed the cage. Someone commented that there weren´t curtains around our Council table. There was laughter.
We made ​​our way to the Council table with quick steps and then, one of the ministers proposed me:

— Mr President, we all know that our meeting is very urgent and important but the truth is that some colleagues and I have thought that if we can not see the specimen before, we´ll burst of desire to see it..

— I was just considering this aspect of the matter, gentlemen.. and ladies. For me there is no objection that first we see the Neanderthal. — I said

There was a murmur of approval in the group.

I ordered the lieutenant she go before us to alert the guard about our visit. When we got there, inside lights were on already, and the curtains open to our input. We entered and we stood in silence around the cage watching the specimen, from the bottom up because the cage was on the platform that had brought it there. More or less, his knees were at the height of our eyes.
I said the group a little in "cicerone" way:

— Here we have him ladies and gentlemen: the Neanderthal specimen, considered safely expressly created by God and sent to this planet in our beaches. I guess that he seems familiar or known to you since he is virtually identical to the reconstructions and portraits carried out by archaeologists and artists from skeletal remains which have appeared in the excavations along the years. There is much literature on the subject and of course, Google images.

— Not that this kind reminds me my Uncle Oscar —  said the General M.M.recalling the famous story of the film world — but I imagine that we will give him a name.

— It may propose names, of course General. Although the superiority is involved at it. Also a name for the operation as codified system; You already know: Overlord, Barbarossa, and so on — I answered somewhat historicist.

— It is no impossible to set up an award for anti-evolution with its image as a small statue — someone said a little alien to topic.

Soon our group seemed somehow diluted in smaller groups as everyone began to wander and comment around the cage, like in a museum; some to the right, others to the left, sometimes stopped, turned to walk, etc.. ever around the cage.

The specimen at first tried turning and to face those who were surrounding him but soon he appeared tired and confused because they were too many moving points of attention for a single viewer. All which made ​​him impossible his first vigilant and control attitude.