![]() ![]() They learned about storms and the Shriek, and they fell in love with the sound of winds screaming and rain pounding. Kyyduh learned about plants, animals, rocks, and most importantly, they learned about Pulonis and other planets. ![]() It was funded by the Veskarium-but what isn’t, on Pulonis? Only about half their discoveries made it to Command 6, while the rest seemed to go to Hafrerren or just to random places around the Shriek. The camp was studying the restoration of the Holy Lands. The scientists were genuinely nice, even the vesk ones (maybe especially the vesk ones), and they explained what they were talking about to Kyyduh in a way they could understand. They did a lot of manual labor there, listening to other, smarter pahtras and vesk discussing things like the biology of the plants growing, the geologic implications of magnetism on flora, the effects of radiation on fauna. With what little money they had left from their parents, they booked passage on a ship for as far as their credits would take them, and wound up on the outskirts of the Holy Lands. Kyyduh left the academy at the end of their twentieth summer. They could run and climb and lift, but they couldn’t focus long enough on their commanding officer to learn when to run and climb and lift. ![]() Kyyduh found that their mind couldn’t seem to keep up with the words being yelled at them, the words being scribbled and erased too quickly on the chalkboards, the words appearing in the too-thick books they were expected to read too fast. Their siblings took the trainings and positions offered to them, succeeding and achieving and making names for themselves. Starlance was a good place for a pahtra family to live, and with no obvious rebel connections, Kyyduh and their siblings were fast-tracked into the Veskarium’s military academy. Surrounded by military, by guns, by ships, by technology, all of it fueling a clash that Kyyduh hadn’t so much been born into as they’d inherited. When they’re not embracing the plant life that is as much a part of them as their heart and their eyes. When they’re not taking advantage of just how flexible their body can be. Kyyduh may have taken this tenet too far. Pahtra households often start their mornings with family stretches before breakfast. The first thing a kit learns after taking their first steps is to make sure to stretch and limber up before running and climbing.
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