Poor Homo sapiens! Their histories showed such suffering during those awkward millennia of adolescence before Contact, when they were ignorant and cut off from Galactic society. Meanwhile, Creideiki thought, dolphins had been in almost a state of grace, drifting in their corner of the Whale Dream. When humans finally achieved a type of adulthood, and started lifting the higher creatures of Earth to join them, dolphins of the amicus strain moved fairly easily from one honorable condition to another.
