Category: Module 17: Pact

Raina gives Lia a slow blink and drains her glass, toys with it briefly in her hands before it becomes still.  Her mud-brown eyes are fixed on Lia for a long time before she...

“You said they disapproved, then said it was about you personally.  I’m asking for clarification on that and, yes, I am asking about your perspective on that.  As long as it’s not prying.”   ...

“Yes, but you get my point?  Mutual intolerance or one-sided?”   

“You, personally, or them, personally?”   

Lia’s social class is Unclassified, and about her wrist is her unusual white ID tag.   Unclassified Mers are rare in the Dominion, and Raina is asking if Lia thinks that had any affect on...

Raina nods, listening, carefully she asks, “If it’s not prying, do you think being Unclassified played any part in that?”        

“Wanted you to follow in the family footsteps?”   

“Alright, I do think our upbringing has effects on us we often can’t ignore, but, we will ignore yours as you insist. “You wanted to know about my well spent youth?”    

Raina sips back; there’s a definite sense she’s unsatisfied with that non-response.    

Raina, mostly impassive but a glint of wickedness of her own, shakes her head, “Tip-for-tap – your rules; your parents were miners?”