Taweret and the Tales of Heroes

Chapter 18: Technology and Fallacies

"That is what I am saying," Cassandra said to the others in the chart room. "The males are infertile. I have checked all the male Yuki....they have no sperm count. It doesn't stop them from being able to have sex, but they can't produce offspring."

"Would it matter, though?" Vinayaki asked. "Even if they did, would the sperm be compatible with human women in turn?"

"I don't know," she replied. "The fact is that until there is some way to encourage sperm production for the males, they can't have children. We have been doing what we can here but.....so far nothing."

"Hmmm....." Taweret said as she put her fingers to her long jaw and chin. "I have encountered this quite a lot during my life. I had cured men's problems when it came to this. Babi and some of the other fertility gods can even fix this as well."

"You think that you might be able to help them?" Cassandra asked with some excitement.

"Yes! Of course," the hippo goddess responded by putting her hands to her hips. "Wonderful!" Cassandra said as she clapped her hands. "That will go a long way in helping the Yuki family as a whole. It will help change and benefit male Yuki."

Vinayaki nodded her head. "I think we should go to the next room so we can move this along. What else do you have?"

"Oh.....," she replied. She put everything down in the chart room. "Follow me."

They did just that. They walked behind her as they left the chart room. They then proceeded past the doors as they headed to the center room that had the money tree and to the room next to it. Cassandra opened up the door for them to enter.

Inside the room was a series of various tools and equipment. It consisted of gadgets and technical equipment. Computers, hardware, machinery, the place had it all. It wasn't a big room, but some tables dotted near the walls where there were testing stations and tools for repairing construction equipment.

"This is essentially our gadget room," Cassandra explained. "Here, we test and repair hardware. It is also a research area for creating new gadgets as well."

Gary walked over and saw what looked like a gun on the table. He put his hands on the handle. The firearm itself had some triangular looking emitter and a long handle to it. The back of the gun had what looked like some sort of energy source that shined. He turned the gun to look at all the sides carefully.

"What is this?" he asked.

Cassandra waved for him to put the gun down in which he did. "That.....is a drilling tool. It is one of my favorite inventions that I discovered all by myself. I ended up discovering a special substance that can power handheld and large emitter arrays. I learned that the Yuki were immune to the radioactive particles released from the nuclear generator. We have one that is powering the den here. In case the system goes bad or has a meltdown, the reactor can be dropped down a long vast tunnel into the Earth itself. I have learned that silicon quartz that is mixed with silver can be placed into the proximity of a nuclear reaction. What would normally kill a human does nothing to us in turn. The quartz essentially becomes a crystal that generates power and energy that can be used in these emitters. The back section of the gun is the power source....."

"A gun?" Vinayaki asked.

"It wasn't designed to be a tool of violence. At first, I had thought that I developed a laser pistol or an energy weapon of incredible power. We used this for the first time in mining out the vast network of tunnels here to accommodate our needs. Thankfully I learned the hard way that it doesn't hurt us....." she paused as she put her hand and frowned. "I accidentally shot myself with it. I don't want to try it out on human mortals...."