So just now had a little internet scare when the internet suddenly stopped working with a little detective work we realized that one of the modem's wires was becoming totally frayed looked like a mouse had been chewing on it but I think it was just old and falling apart fortunately Dad had back up wires so he was able to replace it but so yeah decided to take out a little of that frustration by opening with Glass Joe venting his frustrations
Upon returning to their apartment from the hospital Dana couldn't help but notice Glass Joe looked a little...Peeved.
"Joe…" The Mutant Doberman said softly "...Is something the matter?"
"I'm sorry Dana…" Joe sighed "It's...Just...The way they talked about our soon-to-be child like it's a science experiment! And then what you said about how those Doctors would have sent a Mutant like you to that Scoundrel Feral a few years ago...It's just…" He shook his fists a bit trying to contain himself "Mon Dieu! I wouldn't trust those Doctors knowing they would be willing to send intelligent creatures to a house of horrors! Even back before I knew anything about Mutants and might have still been terrified of one if I met one in a dark alley I still knew it would be a violation of the Hippocratic oath for Doctors to send a creature in their care to its death!"
Dana sighed "I can only know so much about how humans think despite all my training...I don't know what causes otherwise good people to comply with otherwise evil orders or to simply be willing to but my guess for people like those Doctors probably just a lot of fear of Feral and what he could have done to them if they refused to comply…"
Just then the phone rang giving a reason to be distracted from such heavy thoughts. Joe picked up it was Doc Louis again he told of how Little Mac had just had his first meeting with Bimbette and that the Mutant Doe had confessed she had been part of an experiment in developing a psychic powers serum...Though Little Mac already knew when he thought she was a human girl that she was part of something strange when she healed his wounded finger by sucking on it…
Joe and Dana looked at each other with concern...This wasn't the first time they had heard of a Mutant who had been mutated specifically as part of research into developing psychic powers...Nor the first instance of a Mutant with psychic healing powers...Shirley the Mutant Goldfish seemed to be able to heal with her touch partly seemed to be using the slime that covered her body to do it…
"When would you like me to meet her?" Joe asked
Meanwhile in Forest Stripes the Mutant Tigress was on her way to her usual spot to play her steel drum...She had tried to find a secluded spot so she wouldn't bother too many of the Mutants with her playing...But more and more Mutants discovered her and really liked to music and seemed the world of Forest did because this spring the plants and trees of Forest seemed to bloom spectacularly and certain psychic mutants declared they had been responding to Stripes' music Stripes thought about the idea if her music really was magic and what that might mean...She knew the Humanimals of First Earth had magic music but then so does everyone in that universe because music is interwoven with how magic works in that dimension...Not like this universe which seemed so much more grounded compared to that fanciful world where it seemed fairy tales were real!
But as Stripes was musing on all these things, her ears perked to a different kind of music...Violin music! The Tigress' ears wiggled she knew she recognized that specific tune from somewhere it was on the tip of her tongue but she just couldn't name it!
Wanting to get it off the tip of her tongue and because she wanted to know who was the Mutant making such beautiful music she padded softly until she came to the tree apartment and saw a White Tailed Doe Mutant playing the violin with her eyes closed and a smile on her face
Stripes stopped for a moment and listened as several other Mutants had done when she had played her steel drum, it was nice to be the audience for a change…
Was originally going to include the conversation between Stripes and Bimbette but I decided to leave that for next chapter