Application: Acorna Harakamian-Li, the Acorna series

[lady_kirin]

Acorna isn't sure what to make of this. She looks around the sorting room - strange and austere, but even without the purifying effect of her horn, the air is clean and safe if a little musty, and she doesn't see any immediate danger - and turns back to the door she came in through, which looks nothing like any hatch ever installed on the Condor.

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[lady_kirin]

"No, it's fine. I was a baby for the first one - it's how I ended up being raised by humans, actually. The invaders - we called them the Khleevi - were insectoid beings with no desire to communicate with the Linyaari and a penchant for torture," Acorna explains. "They nearly caught my family's ship, so my father was forced to deploy a defensive weapon that destroyed both vessels, after setting me adrift in a life boat. I was lucky enough to be picked up by a human salvage ship days later. The crew raised me, protected me from some misguided authorities who wished to 'correct' my 'deformities' surgically." She was barely old enough to remember the incident, but thinking of it still makes her shiver.

"The second time... we, my adoptive 'uncles' and I, managed to locate and contact the Linyaari only months before the second Khleevi assault," she continues, and quickly corrects herself, "Or rather, they found us; we were headed in the right direction when a Linyaari vessel came with a warning that the Khleevi were on the move and headed toward human-occupied space. The second time around, we discovered a plant-derived compound that damaged the Khleevi's exoskeletons, but not until they'd caused extensive damage to narhii-Vhiliinyar, where most of the population had evacuated during the original invasion."

Vote: Gryffindor

[psycho_vertue]

Diana shivered too. Nobody had tried to 'fix' her, but she had been under the influence of people who had tried to control her, and it was just as bad.

She straightened, jutting her chin out defiantly. "It sounds like you did well. I haven't been here long, but from what I've heard, Gryffindor might be where you should go. It's supposed to be a house for the brave. Don't ask me what the questions have to do with it; I haven't the faintest clue."

Re: Vote: Gryffindor

[lady_kirin]

Acorna nods. "Thank you, then."