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-Flashback: Mars-

18 year old Jay stood in the garage with his tool kit dissembling an old damaged rifle for any good parts, and next to him is a similar rifle being built from salvaged parts and only missing a few rather important things.

Jay's dad walks in and says "I knew I'd find you here, dinner is ready." "Just bring some in here" replies Jay, not even looking up. "No" replies his dad, "we need to talk, come eat inside." Jay reluctantly puts down his tools and comes inside. "What is it?" says Jay once at the table, rolling his eyes. His dad says "You have not done anything since you got out of high school, you should really consider going to Olympia University or at least applying for a job, you can't just dig around in garbage like that all day." Jay gets quite annoyed and says "What, so that I can get a real job such as being a life support maintaining dredge like you? Also, it's not junk, there is some valuable stuff there and I have managed to make around 4,000 credits this year from it." His dad replies "You can't make a life on a few thousand a year, and life support maintenance is an important job." Jay picks up his plate and goes toward the garage saying "Just you wait, when I get my own ship I will make many times as much as you do. The superconductive thrust vectoring coils in hyperion thrusters are easily worth 5,000 credits each."

Before his dad could stop him Jay was already back in the garage with his dinner continuing his project of making a working rifle from many broken ones.

(That last post was rather out of character. Could I do it again?

The library in a cave? Shoot, he was sharp. "U-uh--" Usually they didn't plan this far ahead. They thought they got him with the steamy part.

At Mike's second question, Lilli's ears pinned against their head. "Uh."

A small amount of silence passed, before Lilli looked away, their eyebrows furrowed together. "It's...."

Lilli stared down at their lap. They didn't really want to share this with anybody, considering it was something they had kept secret their entire life. And the consequences if anyone found out about it were... Lilli wrung their fingers together in their lap, their knuckles turning white.

"It's nothin' interesting," they said quietly.

Guinan noticed Lilli's discomfort and decided not to ask. She'd only heard a small part of the discussion anyway. "G'morning," she mumbled, thinking maybe it'd be a good idea to feed her Pokemon instead.

[Sorry that I haven't posted anything for so long...I've been trying to create/find/discover a universal character [or two] that I really like and can carry from book to book, and then add to this thread. So far I haven't really been successful. Any suggestions?]

Picking up on how nervous Lilli is Mike says "I have dealt with enough politicians to know when someone is keeping something from me."

Mars says "But seriously though, I'm fine with steamy. If you need someone to proofread-" He pauses for a moment. "Ohhhh, I think I get what's going on. Is this some really kinky stuff that you are embarrassed to be into? If that's the case then never mind."

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Dealt with politicians? Oh shoot, they didn't take that into account. They forgot that Mike had years of life experience, so of course he would be better at picking

Their eyes widened at Mars' rather uncomfortable comment. "M-mister Mars!" Lilli said shyly. Why did he have to bring up something like that right now? He was gonna make them look bad...
They felt their cheeks heating up with embarassment as they clutched their journal to their chest, sinking further down into their chair. It almost seemed like they were going to melt into their seat at any moment. "Um... can you get out..." Lilli said, their voice muffled by their notebook, "You're makin' me uncomfortable..."

When Mars was finally gone, Lilli looked around. Mike was still there, and he didn't look like he would be going anytime soon. He was looking at them intently. It looked like they were kind of caught in a corner. But they had known Mike for some time, and he seemed to be someone they could kind of trust...

Lilli moved their arm out of the way slightly so Mike could see the cover of the book. But from any other angle, it would be impossible for someone to see. "It's... an ancient text," they said quietly, staring down at their lap.

They didn't look up at him, but they continued, "I've... been studyin' it for some time. But... had t' keep it a secret."

"Have I.. told you about the Nive?"

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(Mars' plan was actually to see if Lilli would agree with his accusation because agreeing with something embarrassing like that to get people off their case would mean that Lilli was hiding something more serious, but if Lilli disagreed then that means that his accusation is worse then what they are actually hiding.)

Mike's expression changes from one of suspicion to one of confusion. "No, you have not told me about the Nive. What is it? Or... What are they? First thing first is 'Nive' singular or plural?" he asks.

Lilli looked rather taken aback by this. "R-really? I didn't? ...I figured I woulda by now..."

"It could refer to either a single person or a group of people," Lilli answered.

They blinked at Mike's question. "Ah... my people are descended from a race called the Nive. But then they were conquered by these people called the Bosqans, and my people became known as the Hauke."

"Ahh, I see." replies Mike, "So are we talking hundreds of years ago, thousands, millions...? I really have no context with your history, on my planet it took tens of thousands of years and the rise and fall of empires to develop farming but space travel went from shooting missiles into space to colonizing other worlds and shooting missiles at people in space in like 200 years."

Laura sorrowfully kneaded her fingers into the soft carpet, until she looked up at Lilli. "...Nive? What are they like? It might be kinda rude for me to ask after just appearing out of nowheresville, but... heheh.." she asked with a nervous smile.

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"This was three thousand years ago. Back then, the two species in my world still lived on different continents. Indrids, who are mammals like me, lived on one, and the Bosqans-- who are reptiles-- lived on the other. There are hundreds of races livin' on my continent, the Nive bein' among 'em."

Lilli's eyebrows creased together as they leaned forward on the table. "But then the Bosqans came sailin' in, took over a lil! region, assimilated us into their religion an' language, and the little niche they conquered became a wonderful, boomin' industrialized country called Nova Bosque," Lilli recited dryly in a singsong voice. They raised an eyebrow. "....But that's not what really happened."

They looked over at the ground. "W-would you like me to say more? I'd love to speak in more detail... but I don't wanna bore you to death..."

"History is written by the victors, and apparently that stands true no matter what planet you are on." replies Mike, "Let me guess, it was painted as a great victory but it was really an atrocity?" He pauses for a moment and looks down at the ground. "I have seen it happen multiple times, you would think that a species smart enough to colonize other worlds and rip holes in space it's self could move past nationalism. You would really f**king think."

He looks up realizing that Li has still not finished what they had to say. "Oh, sorry. So is that about right?"

^No swearing allowed!