In which Arisansci finds herself in a hateful new world, and struggles to find familiarity in alien faces.

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Callous
Cold
Cruel

Boiling
Desperate
Greedy

Somehow, the doctor is resistant to his charms. Not the muted, easily defeated effect his has on the Djinn, either. He knows, for he can feel her body buzz with want every time she sees him. And yet, she is powerful enough to hold at bay the desperation that fills her.

There is no disgust, and perhaps that is ( Read more... )

Arbitrary chart here for no reason.
  PanNausithoeMomoHoratioNaviKtsvaraAraminaArisaPhysical adulthood (Mangalore)4.7156104.6302Cultural adulthood (Mangalore)5.735N/A107173Physical in earth years12245183014906Cultural in earth years16270N/A3027519

Her satisfied smile is tempered with a relieved sigh. The first exposure to a new species was always ( Read more... )

Too much Star Trek means
Not enough Moon Folk.

"Marissa, why are you doing this?"

"Maella, there is not a magic insensitive among them. There will not be another chance like this again. The Rani would not have you killed, you have done nothing wrong and they know that. But they would take away my remaining years without another thought. If I am to ( Read more... )

"It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Arisa. It seems that, with the Elf out of sorts still, you and I will, together, make up the medical crew. I shall fix the minds, and you the bodies. I am Mobula Nausithoe. You may call me Nausithoe, if you wish ( Read more... )

"How...long do you live ( Read more... )

Dare to Dream
Of far off Lands.
Of scalding deserts,
Of boiling Sands.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dare-to-dream-5/
Her lips move without her consent, pulling into an expression unfamiliar to her. She has seen it on other faces, though, often enough to recognize that she ( Read more... )

Complete
Denial
Officially
Non-Cannon.

There was a woman outside the door holding the broken Fae. To anyone else, the concept of a guard for a high ranking, deathly ill member of the crew would be unsurprising. Nausithoe tipped his eyestalks to one side, focusing on the being. She was very close to Standard, lacking only the traditional tails and ( Read more... )

To describe him as
Minor
Is a bit of an
Understatement.

On his own world, called in Standard the super-standard planet Nereid Three, Nausithoe would not be particularly exciting. He is of the second Donator gender or Hijra, called colloqially by a term roughly equating "Upper Middle Giver" perhaps coming from the tribal misconception that Hijra were ( Read more... )

I'm sorry but

Your culture is

A joke.
UDB

Ranga

Rey-kobold

Nereid Three is covered in a surface layer of liquid silicates. It's temperature is well outside the standard limits of sentient life, but it contains a nonstandard life form known colloquially as the Ranga, or officially as the Rey-kobold.

Their structure might be described as humanoid ( Read more... )