Agent Charlie: Mission Report #4

This is entry number four in the Agent Charlie series. Read previous chapters.

Mission Brief: Not all babies are Agents. Only a chosen few have the advanced sensory perception required to learn about the Natives.

Milestones: Two months into my mission and my Natives are showing encouraging signs of development. Their vocalisation has advanced to gurgling, cooing, oohs and aahs. They smile.

Smooth’s singing has improved but she has started to dance with me. Bristles now puts on my nappy the correct way round but deposits particles of beard after a trim. He no longer attempts to breastfeed me. Recently he has learned to follow simple facial cues when I’m hungry, tired or bored of him.

A Return to the Moon-Feeding Clinic: Our operatives are everywhere. As we sit outside the clinic, other Agents are waiting in black and silver chariots. A big blond woman is grimly rocking her daughter.

I glance across at her Agent.

What are you in for?

Colic. You?

I smile at her naivety.

That’s classified.

Smooth takes me into the clinic, leaving Bristles outside reading a book by Groucho Marx. On one of the clinic walls there’s a photo display of captured Agents. Next to it is a poster of an Agent...