 What motivated the narrator to design the Volpla origin story as he did?
Volpla By WYMAN GUIN Illustrated by Yet I had always been so sure I could create them that I had been calling them volplas for ten years. I had called them volplas since the day old Nijinsky's elongated arms and his cousin's lateral skin folds had given me the idea of a flying mutant. Again in the laboratory, I entered the metabolic accelerator and withdrew the intravenous needles from my first volplas. Suddenly, as I teased the male volpla, this happened. There would be volpla colonies all up and down the Coast before anyone suspected. One day, somebody would see a volpla. Linguists would observe at close quarters and learn the simple volpla language. Volpla wisdom would become a cult—and of all forms of comedy, cults, I think, are the funniest.
 Making them think they were aliens was part of preventing any traceable ties between them and himself
 He enjoyed creating backstories for the creatures as part of the stories he told them  He did not want the creatues to feel like they did not have a rich history  The Volpla asked him to tell them their history, and when they guessed they were from elsewhere, he ran with it  Making them think they were aliens was part of preventing any traceable ties between them and himself