 What kind of relationship does the narrator have with his children?
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Yet I had always been so sure I could create them that I had been calling them volplas for ten years. Again in the laboratory, I entered the metabolic accelerator and withdrew the intravenous needles from my first volplas. I carried their limp little forms out to a mattress in the lab, two girls and a boy. The accelerator had forced them almost to adulthood in less than a month. It would be several hours before they would begin to move, to learn to feed and play, perhaps to learn to fly. Meanwhile, it was clear that here was no war of dominant mutations. I kissed her until I heard rollerskates coming across the terrace from one direction and a horse galloping toward the terrace from the other direction. Outside this little town, I found a litter of flat stones that had young black-snakes under each slab. Except for the face, chest and belly, they were covered with a soft, almost golden down. On their heads and across the shoulders of the male stood a shock of fur as soft as chinchilla. The cranium was in the same proportion to the body as it is in the human. The spars had been common to the basic colony for years and were the result of serial mutations effecting those greatly elongated fifth fingers that had first appeared in Nijinsky. No longer jointed like a finger, the spar turned backward sharply and ran alongside the wrist almost to the elbow.
 The children see him as a kind but absent father figure who is dedicated to his science
 The children don't talk to him at all, because they are constantly disappointed by his not sharing his work with them  The children see him as a kind but absent father figure who is dedicated to his science  The children think he is nice but odd, perhaps a bit too talkative about his own pride around his work  The children are upset with him because they think he is too strict, making them swim with bathing suits, and things like this