2016 One summer evening, as the Earthling is wandering around the beach, she finds a bottle buried in the sand, probably washed ashore along with the shells. It is still wet outside - it could have been brought to shore recently, or the ocean had been running over it for centuries, she can't tell. The Earthling is young and educated, but not a learned scholar or linguist, so she does not recognize the lettering outside the bottle. Nor can she, when she takes out the contents, figure out what's written on the piece of - paper? leather? It's written in a completely unrecognizable script. Then, with a not so sudden recognition she has still not found a way to explain, she can read what's on it effortlessly. By the time she is done reading it, she cannot hold on to it any longer. Her hands tremble in a spontaneous manner, and she tosses into the ocean the writing, as well as the bottle. The two fly and roll away into the ocean, carried away instantly by the recedin