I hope no one is disappointed! oh, I just watched "Forced Perspective," and I'm completely ignoring Trance's premoniton thing. And...I hope I spelled names right! Please tell me if I didn't, so I can change things.
Part 6
"My species has no name for our planet. We have no name for ourselves. We are just that: we. Our ways were-are very…what was the word Rommie used? Oh-behind. We gather fruit from bushes, vegetables from our gardens, and sleep in trees. We live on the ground, walking upright most of the time. You seemed surprised that I have had two children already. Well, so was my tribe. You see, no female has ever lived as long as me." By now Trance seemed to talk to herself.
"Our purpose is to grow into women, and bear child. Every time the mother has died. I survived not one but two births, and was fine after the second. We didn't believe in monogamy. We saw it as a chance to mix our genes. Of course, we didn't know what genes were, but we had figured out that children carry their parent's characteristics.
"After Jenna was born, my tribe saw it as a miracle. I was fourteen, the normal age for childbirth, and a powerful male had chosen me. I was very proud, as was my father. They wanted me to have another child right away, but my father wouldn't let me. We waited two years and I had Siobhan. "When I lived after that, the father announced that I was a demon. He said women weren't supposed to live that long. My father protected me for awhile, and I kept Siobhan with me. I didn't want her isolated, but the other children started making fun of her. When she was four, Jenna's father took her. I was heartbroken, but it was clear neither daughter wished to live with me. Word spread to other tribes and my father couldn't take it. He fled, and I never saw him.
"By then Sheen had come, hoping to observe our 'backward ways'. I showed him my planet, and eventually we fell in love. He asked me to go with him on his starship. My tribe threw minna fruit at us when we left, saying he was a demon come to take me away. Sheen showed me everything, and there was so much I didn't know. Eventually he explained that he had committed a crime, and his own people were coming after him. I begged him to stay with me, we could hide somewhere." Trance smiled bitterly. "He called me his Naïve Gemini. He taught me how to find things, and how to give them to other people in exchange for 'gifts'. Basically, steal, although I still don't like that word. Harper, when I 'died' that time with the Nightsider, the same thing happened as when I had my children. I don't know how I lived, yet it still made me somewhat of an outsider. I guess now I'll either be a miracle or a demon, huh?"
Harper moved to take her in his lap while Tyr stared at the ground in concentration.
"There are no miracles or demons, Trance. Only us and logic."
Ending!! Sequel, anyone?
Part 6
"My species has no name for our planet. We have no name for ourselves. We are just that: we. Our ways were-are very…what was the word Rommie used? Oh-behind. We gather fruit from bushes, vegetables from our gardens, and sleep in trees. We live on the ground, walking upright most of the time. You seemed surprised that I have had two children already. Well, so was my tribe. You see, no female has ever lived as long as me." By now Trance seemed to talk to herself.
"Our purpose is to grow into women, and bear child. Every time the mother has died. I survived not one but two births, and was fine after the second. We didn't believe in monogamy. We saw it as a chance to mix our genes. Of course, we didn't know what genes were, but we had figured out that children carry their parent's characteristics.
"After Jenna was born, my tribe saw it as a miracle. I was fourteen, the normal age for childbirth, and a powerful male had chosen me. I was very proud, as was my father. They wanted me to have another child right away, but my father wouldn't let me. We waited two years and I had Siobhan. "When I lived after that, the father announced that I was a demon. He said women weren't supposed to live that long. My father protected me for awhile, and I kept Siobhan with me. I didn't want her isolated, but the other children started making fun of her. When she was four, Jenna's father took her. I was heartbroken, but it was clear neither daughter wished to live with me. Word spread to other tribes and my father couldn't take it. He fled, and I never saw him.
"By then Sheen had come, hoping to observe our 'backward ways'. I showed him my planet, and eventually we fell in love. He asked me to go with him on his starship. My tribe threw minna fruit at us when we left, saying he was a demon come to take me away. Sheen showed me everything, and there was so much I didn't know. Eventually he explained that he had committed a crime, and his own people were coming after him. I begged him to stay with me, we could hide somewhere." Trance smiled bitterly. "He called me his Naïve Gemini. He taught me how to find things, and how to give them to other people in exchange for 'gifts'. Basically, steal, although I still don't like that word. Harper, when I 'died' that time with the Nightsider, the same thing happened as when I had my children. I don't know how I lived, yet it still made me somewhat of an outsider. I guess now I'll either be a miracle or a demon, huh?"
Harper moved to take her in his lap while Tyr stared at the ground in concentration.
"There are no miracles or demons, Trance. Only us and logic."
Ending!! Sequel, anyone?