Floating in a large tank that's filled with some sort 
of blue-green solution.
Motionless, impervious to anything else in the 
lab, totally at peace in its man made ocean.

Hands down this has to be the scariest thing that
I have ever seen.
Part human, part grey, blended together perfectly,
like a two-toned icecream.

Tall, slim, perhaps six feet or more from bottom to
top.
It's head isn't visible, covered completely by
wires and a gold colored cap.

One beautiful hazel-brown human eye, the other
is large ,almond shaped and blue as the sky.
There's just a slit for a mouth, maybe its the light but
I can't discern a nose.
Five fingers on the left hand, eight long alien ones
on the other and the same number of toes.

As if sensing us it moves, shifting slightly for the
very first time.
Don't be afraid she says, perhaps reading my mind.

This is it, the prototype for the next generation of warriors. 
Cloning has already begun.
Close your eyes and look again, recognize him?
You should, technically he's your son.


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