Vae -- new sense organ

[sythyry]

And, if you were giving your entire species a new sense organ, what would you want it to be?

The sense organ I would give mine, I shall call the thlume.  The gleaming faceted short horn it would be in shape, curling under the chin like a goatee.  The correct perception of the emotions of people nearby would it provide, and --- this is the elemental fantasy --- it would allow us to be aware of them.  The unhappiness caused by some gift we make we could see and understand, and, if we wished, we could avoid making it worse.

And you?

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I think I'd want a danger sense, so that people could look at something and know if it was a threat and what sort and how much of one. Or better yet not have to look at it.

Also, they'd know when something *wasn't* a threat, which might be just as useful.

Don't know what sort of organ I'd want it to be -- I guess I could just put it in a tail as an excuse to give everyone tails. Plus tails wave around to sense things at random but can be aimed to focus in, right? So it's practical.

Call it a tell-tail. n.n