Your name is a jokeThey'd worked hard to reach this point. Studying the heck out of the ways to play the instruments, in garages, in their rooms, classrooms, and anywhere else they could. Singing lessons, practicing timing and everything. There was no shirking out of a single member of this group. Their only problem left, now that they thought they had a handle on the musical aspect, was a name.A band needed a name to even stand a chance of getting people to listen to them seriously. And a band needed to have people listen to them if they wanted people to remember them. Though the majority of them were in it because they couldn't not play or sing, there were a few of them that wanted, more than anything, to be somebody someday, and musically worked just fine.They preferred a smooth kind of music, gently worming the notes into the minds of their audience. A beat in the background that caught on in the mind, and didn't let go. And since the band was
A ChanceLietTres didn't have anything to compare it to, so she couldn't say that there was anything about her Tribe that might be unusual. There were various members filling various positions. Everyone had a task assigned, and that they performed. The Alpha kept them safe, healthy, and obedient. There were visits from the Zolgen that surrounded them, but those were usually just a glancing pass, to make sure that the reports from the Alpha-Caretaker were true. Sometimes one of them would be moved to elsewhere, but not one thought anything of it, so they just moved on. It happened everywhere, didn't it? Someone was needed for something else and
ClackEventually, the people around forgot mostly that Faina had been rescued from pirates on Maridia; that she'd spent a solid year in therapy for flinching in reaction to certain features and linguistic traits. The therapy was also to help her speak more clearly in Evir, and later USS, and to help her understand that the reactions she'd been taught by the 'nest' the pirates had set up weren't always the greatest when considering the new species that she would be living around. With that help, she recovered nicely and moved on to become an actress in a handful of movies. Skilled in changing her reactions to suit th
ClickAndel had been on Maridia to help with the clean up after the pirates -traffickers- had been removed enough from power that their bases could be raided. There ere, he was sure, teams going through and either appropriating or destroying technology and information all around the bases, but the highest priority to him was rescue.There were dozens of Nephidae at each base; ages varying from unhatched, to full-grown adult. Some were more recent captures, and some were born of the forced breeding program that the pirates created. That on its own would have been enough to piss Andel off, but it didn't even stop there. Oh no, the ... things lea
Forever StudentsAristarah Ephraim was born in 2458, with blue scales and white snowflake markings. His elder brother joked that he should have been named after the marks. Thankfully, he'd been given a more sensible name. Though, it did leave him open to the nickname of Effy. He just reminded his brother that the name Innes was good for 'Inny,' or 'Nessy' and the two called it even. Usually.Innes was quite happily a student, perhaps a student for life, as far as Ephraim could tell. The elder had roughly fifty years on the younger, and had no intention of stopping school after he'd completed t