A Report for an Academy

“I had no way out but I had to find one.”

Rotpeter only learned to act human because he was trapped in a cage. He chose imitation over freedom just to survive the voyage.

“I first learned how to shake hands.”

Watching a captured ape force himself to drink schnapps is heartbreaking. He hates the taste but knows it is his ticket to the stage.

“I have managed to reach the cultural level of an average European.”

Giving up your nature for a career feels like a slow death. Rotpeter has everything now but can barely look at his own kind.

“My ape nature fled out of me.”

The way he describes his old life as a foggy memory is chilling. He traded his soul for the ability to speak to a crowd.