Tags: Being the legal representative of Teniel Cae was, to be frank, a shit position. Manjeet Jiāng had taken the position out of a combination of sympathy and greed. He’d been following Teniel’s case closely, having at the time been studying law on one of the Levir sub-planets, Jure. He’d seen the speeches. He’d also seen how quickly protests turned to riots with the right push. It was hard not to sympathize, especially when Manjeet…
Tags: Teniel Cae, whose friends called him Ten—and it never took him long to make friends—was currently wishing he was not on an oxygen-based world. If he could breathe through his gills and not his mouth and nose, the fact he was being smothered would be a lot less of a problem. Still, he couldn’t hold it against the Osith currently suffocating him. From what he’d heard, it had been a long time since she’d…
Eden’tza ran a scratching stylus over the papers in front of xem. Xyr colleagues gave up long ago on irritation or confusion with xyr preference for physical documents. No, there was nothing wrong with xyr lightbox; it functioned now as it always had. Not well, because it was government property, and nothing the government provided worked well, per se, but it functioned as intended, much like xyrself. Xe found that xe caught things on paper…
The Sound of Silence There is a place I always come back to. It’s a place in between one stop and another, where no one does anything but traverse. There, people who do stop become invisible to those who continue to move. This fascinates me in a way I can’t articulate and I find myself stopping to witness the invisible. In the process, I, too, become unseen. Tonight there is a child, kneeling on the…
Species ▪️ Levir: A bipedal, short-tailed Union associate species with four eyes and patches of scales on otherwise fleshy skin. Levir are capable of breathing oxygen via their lungs and hydrogen via their gills, making them one of few species able to survive in multiple kinds of atmosphere. The Levir are one of the founding races of the Union, and are generally considered to be the pinnacle of culture and education in the universe. Most…