They breathe our poisonous oxygen, in through mouths filled with bone shrapnel, that drip dripping with digestive enzymes. When they are happy they smile at you, showing you their fangs. That should tell you everything you need to know about humans.

They have two eyes, limited to a small range of the visual spectrum. They use machines for the rest. They are blind without their machines and that is how we beat them, but they do not die easily. They fight not just with teeth but with hands. Each hand is covered fingers, small, stubby tentacles lined with bone, and tipped with sharp "nails". One finger stands apart from the rest, bending opposite. With this, they can crush you. Without it, they can barely hold their weapons. Rods of metal that spew fire.

They are tall and squishy, soft underneath their rock clothing. They bleed an unnatural red, filled with rusted iron. Apparently poisonous oxygen binds to the iron to carry it around their bodies! How disgustingly perfect for these monsters.

The humans are brutish, tall, vengeful monsters. They do not abide by the precepts, they ignore all thought thrust at them. I have begun to believe that they do not ignore us, they are simply incapable of hearing us. They bark at each other, growling meaning to one another, like wild animals in fright. They do not link minds or share thought. Each of them is an individual, not one of them ever shares the perceptions of another, except filtered through their own perception. This leaves them constantly insecure, afraid, desperate.

A perfect monster. In a child's story they would be a ridiculous construction. To us, grown adults, they are inconsiderate, ignorant, unknowning monsters that digest food by crushing it between pieces of bone and slathering it in digestive enzymes before they even absorb it.

They kill, they consume, they ignore. Their hunger is infinite, comparable only to their deafness. Thinking at these monsters won't change them, because they cannot hear us. Their machines think for them, transmitting grunts and growls from one to another.

How can you fight a beast such as this? So willfully ignorant, so beastly hungry. How?