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<h1>Just a normal human</h1>
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<h2>Warning for flashing lights.</h2>
<<removeclass "html" "pass7">><<addclass "html" "pass0">><<link '<span class="eye"></span>' '1'>><</link>><<removeclass "html" "pass0">><<addclass "html" "pass1">>There are 8 of you.
Well, no, there are 4 of you and 4 of <<link '“them”.' >>
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Humans.<<linkreplace '<span class="iconify" data-icon="icon-park-outline:eyes" style="color: #a1ff12;" data-width="40" data-height="40"></span>'>> Ugh.<</linkreplace>>
But to these “humans”, it looks like there are 8 of them.
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<<removeclass "html" "pass1">><<addclass "html" "pass2">>You haven’t mastered the art of sighing yet, last time you tried, one of your eyeballs popped out : Sychion said not to do that in front of humans, it’s not customary for eyes to fall out.
But if you could sigh,<<linkreplace '<span class="iconify" data-icon="icon-park-outline:eyes" style="color: #a1ff12;" data-width="40" data-height="40"></span>'>> you would.<</linkreplace>>
It’s annoying enough being confined to this fleshy appearance that stubbornly clings to gravity like its life depends on it – which it does, but that’s not the point – but these nonsensical “social norms” are even worse.
Look at them in the eyes but not too much, stand at appropriate distance unless to copulate and / or instigate a fight, choose the appropriate greetings depending on social standing as referenced in <<link 'file #187… ' >>
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How do these limited beings manage all this but are incapable of living on any other planet ?
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<<removeclass "html" "pass2">><<addclass "html" "pass3">>You suppose you aren’t doing too badly at this blending in affair.
Better than Poyu.XRV :<<linkreplace '<span class="iconify" data-icon="icon-park-outline:eyes" style="color: #a1ff12;" data-width="40" data-height="40"></span>'>> they can’t blink their eyes simultaneously or speak at a normal volume.<</linkreplace>>
Also better than Dildo<<linkreplace '<span class="iconify" data-icon="icon-park-outline:eyes" style="color: #a1ff12;" data-width="40" data-height="40"></span>'>> but that’s because it hasn’t recovered after learning its name refers to the humans’ “pleasure wand” as you’ve understood it to be. <</linkreplace>>
Then there’s <<link 'Ashipda.' >>
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<<link '<span class="eye"></span>' '4'>><</link>><<removeclass "html" "pass3">><<addclass "html" "pass4">>Ze’s happily chatting, looking the most cheerful you’ve seen from zir.
Ze’s been such a mystery. <<linkreplace '<span class="iconify" data-icon="icon-park-outline:eyes" style="color: #a1ff12;" data-width="40" data-height="40"></span>'>> You should be able to read zir thoughts, as all Viontatians can – zir being a different race shouldn’t matter – yet you only hear static. It is possible to resist but what does ze hide then? <</linkreplace>>
It makes you all the more curious.
<<link '<span class="eye"></span>' '5'>><</link>> <<removeclass "html" "pass4">><<addclass "html" "pass5">>You ignore the “party” and look out the window.
The humans' sky is so bleak, even the stars are dim.
You think of home.<<linkreplace '<span class="iconify" data-icon="icon-park-outline:eyes" style="color: #a1ff12;" data-width="40" data-height="40"></span>'>> Bright green liquid stars swirling around purple skies, two pink moons always visible from anywhere in the city.
You remember your last moments on Murgyen; the explosions at the Cupola, the fizzing blood, the melting corpses on the side of the street – all because of Buccna’s coup.
Not that things were great before, Viontatians were always persecuted but now, your people were hunted to be executed or to become Buccna’s pawns.<</linkreplace>>
<<link 'Now you’re here.' >>
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Stuck on Earth, having to make friends and appear “normal” to these humans until you figure out your next step.
<<link '<span class="eye"></span>' '6'>><</link>><<removeclass "html" "pass5">><<addclass "html" "pass6">>One earthling comes up to you and you barely stop yourself from showing your displeasure.
“Come on ! This is a party, you should be dancing on the ceiling !”
On the ceiling? So humans aren’t tied to the floor then! Wonderful, Sychion must have bad intel; being on the ground does get boring after a while. <<linkreplace '<span class="iconify" data-icon="icon-park-outline:eyes" style="color: #a1ff12;" data-width="40" data-height="40"></span>'>> Your feet are lifting off, the human faints. <</linkreplace>>
<<link '<span class="eye"></span>' '7'>><</link>><<removeclass "html" "pass6">><<addclass "html" "pass7">>Ashipda rushes over, pulls you back down with wide eyes and a shake of the head.
“Oops”, you get the sneaking suspicion you did something non-human.
You sigh. <<linkreplace '<span class="iconify" data-icon="icon-park-outline:eyes" style="color: #a1ff12;" data-width="40" data-height="40"></span>'>> The eye pops out again. <</linkreplace>>
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