06-09-2016, 10:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-10-2016, 10:37 PM by Aralyn Thorn.)
Ara listened, her lowered ears twitching, earrings tinkling slightly. She twitched as the greater weight of both dragoness and tigress made her cot creak ominously, but she was pretty sure these things were made for all matter of Minion recruits and would hold. More, she felt slightly better with the closeness of her teammates, and her ebony-dipped snowy white fluffy brush's tip swished a little. First Freya, then Tamara...then she winced quietly as she listened to why the cheetah got a token and thought to herself that obviously she was NOT taking her failures well. She listened to Charon after the Captain had left and turned her head on its side on her arm and pillow and sighed softly before launching into what she thought might be an explanation of why she felt what she did, her accent stronger than before, her voice holding together in a filigree web of false calm.
"Thank you all for your comments, and for your good graces under pressure, for your reassurances and confidence in yourselves and me. Thank you for letting me be a part of your team, and trying to make me feel, well, um, at home? I have made one blunder after another, starting with how I expressed my joy in being here and how I hugged Doctor Silver, who is an empathetic something. Do any of you know what an empathetic person is? And who doesn't like hugs? I haven't ever understood why giving someone a hug is a bad thing - my professors seemed somewhat taken aback, but they didn't react like the doctor or like General Steele did, and the General obviously saw something he didn't like in my file and said I needed tempering - which is a process of hardening metal, but I'm not metal, though it seems like he meant mettle instead, but that's confusing. Then Captain Cobalt took me aside and told me that what I'd done was inappropriate, and I thought he was being somewhat kind and gentle, and that didn't seem very military, so I asked him if he was an officer, because he didn't seem like the others and he got upset and insulted! Why? I didn't mean anything other than to ask why he seemed different than the others? But it was really bothersome because now I'd been assigned to this department instead of Doctor Silver who was representing R&D, and Jade had said I would find some good opportunities there to pursue my studies and my doctorate. I'm a physicist! A mathematician! I deal wth the tiniest of things in here and the biggest of mysteries out there!" To emphasize her points she touched herself and then pointed towards the sky, hidden by the tent.
"But because of a first impression gone wrong, instead I am here with you all...and I don't mean any insults by that, because you seem like very nice and helpful people. But I haven't any experience in going out looking for anything to eat other than to the market or using my meal tickets! So, I try and go out to find things, and well, honestly, I haven't the first idea how to identify or explain what I have other than I thought the materials provided said they should be okay and I tried a berry because it smelled good and looked good and tasted good too. Obviously, that was the wrong way to do things, because all my stuff was put in the bin and may as well have been flushed down the loo. Then I go to the medical tent and who should be there but Doctor Silver, who looked like he was very busy with nothing at all until I arrived and then he gave me what he called activated charcoal and water to drink. It tasted awful, makes my tum feel worse and then there's this!" She stuck out her tongue, which of course, was black. "It'th taththinng laak thanpaypeww an' maakinng me wannahh thow up!", she said around her stuck out tongue, then pulled it back in and gulped. "But I told him that I apologized for hugging and touching him and he accepted that, but he didn't think he was the type of doctor I needed to talk to about my questions of what I was doing wrong, because I'm not good with people, see, and then he shooed me out telling me I should address my questions to my own commander and that he had to get back to analyzing things from his own recruits!" Tears started to well up as she whimpered. "He thinks I'm not good enough to be one of his recruits! They all have misunderstood everything I have done since I have set foot here, or I have misunderstood, or there's a lot of misunderstanding going on, and I don't know how I can prove myself worthy to be in Her Majesty's service trying to do things that I'm not familiar with and trying to act like someone I'm not! I don't understand anything at all!" Her breathless rambling finished, her chin plopped back down on her arm and she tried to swallow again. Ugh..taste and olfactory senses were strongly linked, and the vixen's sense of smell and hearing were amongst the sharpest of the species represented on the Calendar Isles; and so, that charcoal was really, really loathsome in her upset little tummy!
"And while we're on the subject of leading, I think I am the least qualified here to be leading anything, especially in light of my ignorances in how to manage and deal with people and in the knowledges of gathering and foraging. I think Freya should be leading, because she has some sense of what the commanders like and is nice. And she's the biggest."
"Thank you all for your comments, and for your good graces under pressure, for your reassurances and confidence in yourselves and me. Thank you for letting me be a part of your team, and trying to make me feel, well, um, at home? I have made one blunder after another, starting with how I expressed my joy in being here and how I hugged Doctor Silver, who is an empathetic something. Do any of you know what an empathetic person is? And who doesn't like hugs? I haven't ever understood why giving someone a hug is a bad thing - my professors seemed somewhat taken aback, but they didn't react like the doctor or like General Steele did, and the General obviously saw something he didn't like in my file and said I needed tempering - which is a process of hardening metal, but I'm not metal, though it seems like he meant mettle instead, but that's confusing. Then Captain Cobalt took me aside and told me that what I'd done was inappropriate, and I thought he was being somewhat kind and gentle, and that didn't seem very military, so I asked him if he was an officer, because he didn't seem like the others and he got upset and insulted! Why? I didn't mean anything other than to ask why he seemed different than the others? But it was really bothersome because now I'd been assigned to this department instead of Doctor Silver who was representing R&D, and Jade had said I would find some good opportunities there to pursue my studies and my doctorate. I'm a physicist! A mathematician! I deal wth the tiniest of things in here and the biggest of mysteries out there!" To emphasize her points she touched herself and then pointed towards the sky, hidden by the tent.
"But because of a first impression gone wrong, instead I am here with you all...and I don't mean any insults by that, because you seem like very nice and helpful people. But I haven't any experience in going out looking for anything to eat other than to the market or using my meal tickets! So, I try and go out to find things, and well, honestly, I haven't the first idea how to identify or explain what I have other than I thought the materials provided said they should be okay and I tried a berry because it smelled good and looked good and tasted good too. Obviously, that was the wrong way to do things, because all my stuff was put in the bin and may as well have been flushed down the loo. Then I go to the medical tent and who should be there but Doctor Silver, who looked like he was very busy with nothing at all until I arrived and then he gave me what he called activated charcoal and water to drink. It tasted awful, makes my tum feel worse and then there's this!" She stuck out her tongue, which of course, was black. "It'th taththinng laak thanpaypeww an' maakinng me wannahh thow up!", she said around her stuck out tongue, then pulled it back in and gulped. "But I told him that I apologized for hugging and touching him and he accepted that, but he didn't think he was the type of doctor I needed to talk to about my questions of what I was doing wrong, because I'm not good with people, see, and then he shooed me out telling me I should address my questions to my own commander and that he had to get back to analyzing things from his own recruits!" Tears started to well up as she whimpered. "He thinks I'm not good enough to be one of his recruits! They all have misunderstood everything I have done since I have set foot here, or I have misunderstood, or there's a lot of misunderstanding going on, and I don't know how I can prove myself worthy to be in Her Majesty's service trying to do things that I'm not familiar with and trying to act like someone I'm not! I don't understand anything at all!" Her breathless rambling finished, her chin plopped back down on her arm and she tried to swallow again. Ugh..taste and olfactory senses were strongly linked, and the vixen's sense of smell and hearing were amongst the sharpest of the species represented on the Calendar Isles; and so, that charcoal was really, really loathsome in her upset little tummy!
"And while we're on the subject of leading, I think I am the least qualified here to be leading anything, especially in light of my ignorances in how to manage and deal with people and in the knowledges of gathering and foraging. I think Freya should be leading, because she has some sense of what the commanders like and is nice. And she's the biggest."