Chapter One: Deep Space Music

[Akirapryde]

'He is strange for a former clanner' Alice thought as she turned her eyes down. She didn't like the way he just spoke or acted. She wasn't separated from her 'flock' nor did she have anything to prove. She didn't need to be anyone other than who she was born as. She glanced at her laptop and sighed heavily. Getting her mother to speak about the Clans was nearly impossible and she wanted to know this piece of who she was.

She finally looked up and noticed that he was looking right at her. His gaze made her feel a bit uneasy. "Neither in fact" she said calmly as she squared her shoulders and held her head up high. "I want to know about the world that I come from. Everyone I have spoken to only speaks of the horrors of the Clan Invasion and how bad the Clans are. I don't remember my time there as a child. My mother....." she said softly then trailed off. She turned and looked away. Alice hated speaking of her mother. It wasn't like she hated her mother. In fact she loved her mother with all her heart. Speaking of her mother was just, painful. And she knew it reflected in her voice, "my mother had been my only link to the people and world I come from. Before my mother died, she hardly ever spoke of them. And when she did, it was always something bad."

She paused a moment to regain control over that frog in her throat that was causing her voice to tighten and her eyes to water. "My mother was a remarkable woman. I wouldn't be the person I am here today if not for her. So Jade Falcons can't be all that horrible. There has to be something worthy to them. This is why I ask you. Do you have anything to offer about them?"