Author's Note: Okay since ffnet ate my last telepathy marks, I'm gonna try
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Chapter:02
Perhaps I should introduce my family first to understand what my life was like then.
My mother was a scientist as well, however she was a biologist over a chemist like myself. My father was a minor prince in the Andalite military, more concerned with mapping the universe for the military from the comfort of our scoop than any real military action. Not that there was much to be had. Times were peaceful then, and had been for fifty years, since the Hilash War. Princes were more explorers then, looking for peaceful relations with before untouched races, so we would have very few enemies throughout the universe.
I was not and only child, I had a sister as well named Faliter, who was say we say, much more mature than me socially. Older of course, and still miffed that my father regretted his first child being female, what with all her social graces she was surely better than any male. It was only through my grandfather's tail smoothing that my family was permitted to try again for a child, and my father was rewarded finally with a male child, my younger brother, Admarth. With my sister's ambitious and somewhat showy nature, my brother's natural place as a favored child, I fell perhaps a little gratefully in the void between. For in that void I was often left to my own devices and an independence grew in me that in other females would have been suppressed
As a result my childhood is a happy collage of spending entire days without supervision, playing roughly with males, my male friends even teaching me to tail fight, low grades much less noticed by my parents than with most other children, pranks, boundless dreams and fantasies played out for hours on sun soaked blue and red fields. All with little discipline unless a teacher or neighbor actually came and complained to my parents. Still I think it is the happiest childhood an Andalite could hope to have.
By the time my sister and I (we were very close in age, and my brother had already entered the military academy by then) entered the University of Advanced Scientific Theory, I was still very independent and not exactly marriage minded, unlike most females at that age. Something that was to my sister's chagrin and my mother's regret, at letting me have free reign for so long.
In my mind I had found a niche for myself as a chemist, a subject I had actually fallen in love with to my surprise and studied ardently. I didn't need to marry, I could make headway without a husband, I told my mother. I didn't want my freedom reduced, as I knew what would happen if I married. I would have someone commenting on my actions and activities, as I now did since my mother had suddenly taken an interest in me, but it would be for the rest of my life, among other "duties" that my husband would require of me. I thought for sure if I held out longer than her, my mother would let off me eventually. After all Faliter had no shortage of suitors, she would marry for sure.
This was me the day I just happened to run into and knock over a person who would be very fundamental in my life later on.
I was late for class, I had taken the liberty of taking a small nap besides the campus lake when the bell shattered my rather pleasant dream. To be late at this school was to be marked by the teacher for the rest of the year. And I did not care to be marked by a teacher with the nickname around campus of "Stiff-Tailed Tolader." So my feet were whirling past the other glass covered domes of the University, of other teachers and other students settling in for the second half of the daily lessons. Of the last vagrants still lingering between the domes, giving long good-byes to their favored female or male, or just trying to avoid looking overly disciplined by walking in too early. I leapt the small rise between the Study of Extraterrestrial, Foliage Spoors and their Potential Medicinal Usages, and my own class, The Examination of Neutrino Acids and their Interaction with Ultraviolet Rays, only to be intersected by someone else who was as well rushing to his next class.
((Umph!)) was my eloquent statement as I hit the other body of blue and tan fur, not losing my feet, but he did. "He" was a male, who looked to be about my age, with a powerful frame, it was a little amazing I'd knocked him over at all, and a well shaped face whose eyes while facing away at the time, I could see first turning from shock then to indignity as he began climbing to his feet.
((I...I am...))I began to apologize before he found his feet completely and turned on my with and angry and hard stare.
((Why did you not look where you were going!?))He demanded, almost immediately I saw his eyes soften, realizing I was a female, however I was still incensed.
((It takes two to make and accident,)) I reminded him, ((why did you not watch were you were going?))
((My, do not you have a sharp wit,)) he commented, it was wry, matched with a disarming smile that delayed my next statement, which he took advantage of. ((I am sorry, I spoke, before I thought.))
He bowed a traditional Andalite bow, a sign of wanting forgiveness, ((Forgive me...)) he looked up at me questioningly.
((Jahar-Theril-Elrhol,)) I supplied, and gave the traditional reply to his gesture, ((I forgive the transaction...)) Now I looked at him questioningly.
((Arbat-Semerl-Thylik,)) he answered, and moved to be by my side, which I somewhat sidestepped, he was getting a little too friendly for just knowing each other for five seconds.
He noticed, but only grinned and made no more motions that he had. ((Perhaps you could show me to the Classroom of Professor Tolader?))
((Yes, I could he's my next professor,)) I told him, I looked at him curiously, ((Are you a student?)) I had not noticed him before.
He chuckled, ((No, I am his assistant, seems he needs to borrow some military equipment for today's lecture.))
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Chapter:02
Perhaps I should introduce my family first to understand what my life was like then.
My mother was a scientist as well, however she was a biologist over a chemist like myself. My father was a minor prince in the Andalite military, more concerned with mapping the universe for the military from the comfort of our scoop than any real military action. Not that there was much to be had. Times were peaceful then, and had been for fifty years, since the Hilash War. Princes were more explorers then, looking for peaceful relations with before untouched races, so we would have very few enemies throughout the universe.
I was not and only child, I had a sister as well named Faliter, who was say we say, much more mature than me socially. Older of course, and still miffed that my father regretted his first child being female, what with all her social graces she was surely better than any male. It was only through my grandfather's tail smoothing that my family was permitted to try again for a child, and my father was rewarded finally with a male child, my younger brother, Admarth. With my sister's ambitious and somewhat showy nature, my brother's natural place as a favored child, I fell perhaps a little gratefully in the void between. For in that void I was often left to my own devices and an independence grew in me that in other females would have been suppressed
As a result my childhood is a happy collage of spending entire days without supervision, playing roughly with males, my male friends even teaching me to tail fight, low grades much less noticed by my parents than with most other children, pranks, boundless dreams and fantasies played out for hours on sun soaked blue and red fields. All with little discipline unless a teacher or neighbor actually came and complained to my parents. Still I think it is the happiest childhood an Andalite could hope to have.
By the time my sister and I (we were very close in age, and my brother had already entered the military academy by then) entered the University of Advanced Scientific Theory, I was still very independent and not exactly marriage minded, unlike most females at that age. Something that was to my sister's chagrin and my mother's regret, at letting me have free reign for so long.
In my mind I had found a niche for myself as a chemist, a subject I had actually fallen in love with to my surprise and studied ardently. I didn't need to marry, I could make headway without a husband, I told my mother. I didn't want my freedom reduced, as I knew what would happen if I married. I would have someone commenting on my actions and activities, as I now did since my mother had suddenly taken an interest in me, but it would be for the rest of my life, among other "duties" that my husband would require of me. I thought for sure if I held out longer than her, my mother would let off me eventually. After all Faliter had no shortage of suitors, she would marry for sure.
This was me the day I just happened to run into and knock over a person who would be very fundamental in my life later on.
I was late for class, I had taken the liberty of taking a small nap besides the campus lake when the bell shattered my rather pleasant dream. To be late at this school was to be marked by the teacher for the rest of the year. And I did not care to be marked by a teacher with the nickname around campus of "Stiff-Tailed Tolader." So my feet were whirling past the other glass covered domes of the University, of other teachers and other students settling in for the second half of the daily lessons. Of the last vagrants still lingering between the domes, giving long good-byes to their favored female or male, or just trying to avoid looking overly disciplined by walking in too early. I leapt the small rise between the Study of Extraterrestrial, Foliage Spoors and their Potential Medicinal Usages, and my own class, The Examination of Neutrino Acids and their Interaction with Ultraviolet Rays, only to be intersected by someone else who was as well rushing to his next class.
((Umph!)) was my eloquent statement as I hit the other body of blue and tan fur, not losing my feet, but he did. "He" was a male, who looked to be about my age, with a powerful frame, it was a little amazing I'd knocked him over at all, and a well shaped face whose eyes while facing away at the time, I could see first turning from shock then to indignity as he began climbing to his feet.
((I...I am...))I began to apologize before he found his feet completely and turned on my with and angry and hard stare.
((Why did you not look where you were going!?))He demanded, almost immediately I saw his eyes soften, realizing I was a female, however I was still incensed.
((It takes two to make and accident,)) I reminded him, ((why did you not watch were you were going?))
((My, do not you have a sharp wit,)) he commented, it was wry, matched with a disarming smile that delayed my next statement, which he took advantage of. ((I am sorry, I spoke, before I thought.))
He bowed a traditional Andalite bow, a sign of wanting forgiveness, ((Forgive me...)) he looked up at me questioningly.
((Jahar-Theril-Elrhol,)) I supplied, and gave the traditional reply to his gesture, ((I forgive the transaction...)) Now I looked at him questioningly.
((Arbat-Semerl-Thylik,)) he answered, and moved to be by my side, which I somewhat sidestepped, he was getting a little too friendly for just knowing each other for five seconds.
He noticed, but only grinned and made no more motions that he had. ((Perhaps you could show me to the Classroom of Professor Tolader?))
((Yes, I could he's my next professor,)) I told him, I looked at him curiously, ((Are you a student?)) I had not noticed him before.
He chuckled, ((No, I am his assistant, seems he needs to borrow some military equipment for today's lecture.))
Now it's time for your part my dear readers gets on knees Please, Please, PLEASE Review! Make me very happy!