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Doesina felt like she'd seen so much more in her short time away from Yael than she'd ever been allowed to see back home. She knew there were other races, of course. She'd been taught about them, mostly on how much she should avoid them. But to see so many in one place was just more than she could have ever imagined. So many living together and working together and getting along. No one even minded the hybrids among them, for the most part. She knew she shouldn't feel this way, but she couldn't help being fascinated by Earthlings. They seemed much more....What was a good word? Secure in how they were, in how the world was changing around them. They seemed to handle it a lot better than her people seemed to.

Oh, no. Don't think like that. That was was disrespectful. It wasn't that she thought Aishans weren't secure in who they were. They were the most secure in that aspect than a lot of the others were. It was just...She wished they were more accepting. She could never understand what was wrong with the Earthlings. Or hybrids, for that matter. Wouldn't being a hybrid make you stronger because you had more than one race's strength in your blood? An Aishan hybrid could choose to fight like their Warrior side or not fight at all. That never stopped to be amazing to her.

And than there were the ones who achieved that rank of Legendary. The ones with mixed backgrounds, again, had more to pick from. She'd seen a hybrid with mostly Shifter features who sported feathers along their arms like a flightless bird. Or the one back home from years ago, during one of her sneaky moments getting closer to the Yaeli villages, that looked like a mix of Yael and Oba with little horns on their head.

Doesina touched her antenna at that thought, running her fingers along one until it uncurled at her tugging. She tried to imagine what it might be like to have horns or how big they could get. They were sturdy, so surely they wouldn't wiggle around like her antenna did, making sure she was always aware they were there. Maybe Earthlings got them stuck on things a lot, forgetting they were there. It was true for her own race. She'd had many a laugh as a youngling at some freshly made Legendary who would constantly get their new spikes stuck in their clothing. If she ever reached that stage of her life, she didn't think she'd want those. If she never got used to them being there, she might have to give up wearing her flowy clothes, to wear something, as Heike always said, more practical like she did. And, while her cousin's clothes were pretty in their own way, Doesina didn't like the idea of having something stuck so snugly to her body. She found it restricting and hard to move in. Just plain uncomfortable when it was really tight and wouldn't move with her. Though Heike said the opposite. Clothes that were too flowing got in her way and tripped her up. Doesina had never found this to be true, at least of her own. Maybe Heike's clothes were better at stretching with her movements.

Extra antenna might be more her style. She'd seen those, too, woven elegantly around dreads in an Elaria's hair. But wouldn't it hurt, having your antenna stretched like that all the time? She never did ask. Maybe they didn't. If they didn't she could imagine it'd look very nice with her current hairstyle, interwoven with her long ponytail.

Of course, the bigger mystery about them was where did they come from. Those were questions she had asked. Her grandmother had had an aunt who had been gifted the spikes, all along the backs of her legs. She had no answer as to how or where they had come from. They were suddenly just....There. Things like that didn't just appear, though. Had she eaten something weird? But than that also made no sense. You got sick when you ate something bad, you didn't sprout new body parts.

Doesina let her antenna bounce back into place, watching Heike from a distance as her cousin set up a camp for the night. All this confusing thinking was making her head hurt. She rubbed at a temple, making her way over to where a fire had just sparked to life, the smell of the smoke already reaching her.