Earth Log

One morning a pet ferret wakes up a self-aware sentient being. He has no memory of what came before, but understands that he is far different than any other ferret. He quickly bumps up against built-in restraints such as an inability to harm people or to sleep during the day as other ferrets would do, and, most peculiarly, he is compelled each evening to review the day's events. Perhaps the strongest inherent taboo, however, is against doing anything that would reveal his abnormal intelligence, and against this he struggles as he finds trouble, and trouble finds him and his faithful owner, Joanne.