[ For perhaps the first time since they've met, she hesitates, gold eyes darting to the side briefly before she flicks them back, re-steeling herself. ]
I never thought about what gith I came from, nor what it would be like to have "parents." I never had a desire to know — but I did wonder about it for the first time recently.
[ Gith are a collective people — they're not like humans who have these deep familial bonds right when they're born. Every day as a gith is a test of survival; you could be culled the second you prove too weak. The concept of unconditional, protective, parental love is foreign to her — in experience, but not in concept, now. You can't miss what you never knew... but seeing the anguish of one of her companions' parents keyed her in to the fact that something major was absent from her experience. ]
"Not that you would really know" — did you not know your parents?
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[ For perhaps the first time since they've met, she hesitates, gold eyes darting to the side briefly before she flicks them back, re-steeling herself. ]
I never thought about what gith I came from, nor what it would be like to have "parents." I never had a desire to know — but I did wonder about it for the first time recently.
[ Gith are a collective people — they're not like humans who have these deep familial bonds right when they're born. Every day as a gith is a test of survival; you could be culled the second you prove too weak. The concept of unconditional, protective, parental love is foreign to her — in experience, but not in concept, now. You can't miss what you never knew... but seeing the anguish of one of her companions' parents keyed her in to the fact that something major was absent from her experience. ]
"Not that you would really know" — did you not know your parents?