TM: If you could live anywhere, where would you and why?
This is an interesting question to ask a telepath. We never really get to choose where we want to live, or, for that matter, what we want to do; either the Corps tells us where to go, and what to do there, or the mundanes force us to hide in all kinds of places and do nasty things just to survive, if we're stupid enough to try to run away from our people and live among them. In the end, it's never really our choice.
However, let's just assume for a moment that I could indeed make that choice and live wherever I want to.
I spent most of my life in Teeptown, often away on brief assignments, but that's where I grew up and that's what I would call home if someone where to ask me about it. For a while I used to live on Mars, but I'd rather not go back there, for various reasons. I have travelled a lot, but I never really stayed long enough anywhere else to feel at home there. It's not easy, finding a place where you are welcome when you're a telepath. Which brings us back to the main problem:
I'm a telepath. I'm different.
Of course, I don't consider this a disability. I'm proud to be who I am and to be what I am. Actually, I feel sorry for those of you who weren't gifted in the same way I and my people were; it's a great gift to have, if sometimes a curse as well. You can't run away from being who you are. And I think that's the answer to your question:
In the end, I will always be a teep, and thus there can only be one place for me to call home: Teeptown. Among my people.
However, let's just assume for a moment that I could indeed make that choice and live wherever I want to.
I spent most of my life in Teeptown, often away on brief assignments, but that's where I grew up and that's what I would call home if someone where to ask me about it. For a while I used to live on Mars, but I'd rather not go back there, for various reasons. I have travelled a lot, but I never really stayed long enough anywhere else to feel at home there. It's not easy, finding a place where you are welcome when you're a telepath. Which brings us back to the main problem:
I'm a telepath. I'm different.
Of course, I don't consider this a disability. I'm proud to be who I am and to be what I am. Actually, I feel sorry for those of you who weren't gifted in the same way I and my people were; it's a great gift to have, if sometimes a curse as well. You can't run away from being who you are. And I think that's the answer to your question:
In the end, I will always be a teep, and thus there can only be one place for me to call home: Teeptown. Among my people.