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noprobllama) wrote2019-09-01 08:20 pm
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Chapter 4: Part 2
But not everything was easy for Aveau.
The little things she’d noticed as a child affected her more now. She was really sure now that nobody else on Sulani could turn green. Nobody else had certain abilities she did, like occasionally reading minds or transmuting minerals.
Sulani was her only home. She was giving her all to this place, always trying to be there for people, and take part in its festivals, and clean up Mua Pel’am. Yet, she suspected she didn’t fully belong there. Some part of her would never have a place on Sulani, not really, and would never be more than tourist.
There were times when these thoughts made her sad. Sometimes they just made her angry. What right did her mother have to make her into a test subject? Why did this have to be her life? It was unfair. Maybe things would have been easier If she’d been born elsewhere, somewhere bland and boring where it wasn’t as important to protect her home.
She needed answers. She’d spent long enough stargazing and wondering if her mother knew she was trying to find her home planet.
One day, Roketi was working late. He always had weird work hours these days, but in this situation it was very convenient. She snuck onto his ship for the first time and, just as she suspected, she just knew how to use the wormhole generator to go to Sixam.
It was one of the most amazing places she’d ever seen. The sky was dark, but it seemed like all living creatures were bioluminescent like the plankton on Sulani.
She didn’t meet her mother, but she did find some other inhabitants of Sixham. She wondered what they were thinking – she was just so different from them, with her hair and her Sulani clothes. She tried to show them she was like them, and they were polite enough, but it just didn’t feel right.
This place – she could never belong here. She’d never love it the way she did Sulani. And while the people back home mostly seemed to accept her, here they kept a reserved distance from her. She’d always be an outsider here, because she was too much like a regular Sim.
Her mind was reeling when she went back home.
That night, she sat down with Roketi and told him everything. He understood. He too had felt like he didn’t belong in Sulani, though for very different reasons, but Sulani had never turned its back on him. After Aveau was born, everyone had rallied around him to help him raise her. Everyone still welcomed him. Just like Sulani would always be his home, it would always be her home, too. He was just as important, if not more, than her mother when it came to her heritage and where she called hom.
And of course, he was able to make her laugh.
That whole conversation helped put an end to Aveau’s doubts.
Elsewhere on the island, people’s lives were also changing. Duane Talla had moved away. This picture was taking at Lilliana’s birthday party – it’s her youngest daughter, Terra. Nani, meanwhile, had grown into a young adult and was pregnant at the time.
Roketi's birthday rolled around, too! Aveau made that cake for him.
They also had a blast celebrating New Year's Eve. It felt like everyone had gathered a beach bar to ring a new year.
The little things she’d noticed as a child affected her more now. She was really sure now that nobody else on Sulani could turn green. Nobody else had certain abilities she did, like occasionally reading minds or transmuting minerals.
Sulani was her only home. She was giving her all to this place, always trying to be there for people, and take part in its festivals, and clean up Mua Pel’am. Yet, she suspected she didn’t fully belong there. Some part of her would never have a place on Sulani, not really, and would never be more than tourist.
There were times when these thoughts made her sad. Sometimes they just made her angry. What right did her mother have to make her into a test subject? Why did this have to be her life? It was unfair. Maybe things would have been easier If she’d been born elsewhere, somewhere bland and boring where it wasn’t as important to protect her home.
She needed answers. She’d spent long enough stargazing and wondering if her mother knew she was trying to find her home planet.
One day, Roketi was working late. He always had weird work hours these days, but in this situation it was very convenient. She snuck onto his ship for the first time and, just as she suspected, she just knew how to use the wormhole generator to go to Sixam.
It was one of the most amazing places she’d ever seen. The sky was dark, but it seemed like all living creatures were bioluminescent like the plankton on Sulani.
She didn’t meet her mother, but she did find some other inhabitants of Sixham. She wondered what they were thinking – she was just so different from them, with her hair and her Sulani clothes. She tried to show them she was like them, and they were polite enough, but it just didn’t feel right.
This place – she could never belong here. She’d never love it the way she did Sulani. And while the people back home mostly seemed to accept her, here they kept a reserved distance from her. She’d always be an outsider here, because she was too much like a regular Sim.
Her mind was reeling when she went back home.
That night, she sat down with Roketi and told him everything. He understood. He too had felt like he didn’t belong in Sulani, though for very different reasons, but Sulani had never turned its back on him. After Aveau was born, everyone had rallied around him to help him raise her. Everyone still welcomed him. Just like Sulani would always be his home, it would always be her home, too. He was just as important, if not more, than her mother when it came to her heritage and where she called hom.
And of course, he was able to make her laugh.
That whole conversation helped put an end to Aveau’s doubts.
Elsewhere on the island, people’s lives were also changing. Duane Talla had moved away. This picture was taking at Lilliana’s birthday party – it’s her youngest daughter, Terra. Nani, meanwhile, had grown into a young adult and was pregnant at the time.
Roketi's birthday rolled around, too! Aveau made that cake for him.
They also had a blast celebrating New Year's Eve. It felt like everyone had gathered a beach bar to ring a new year.