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Date Posted: 10:44:14 06/03/05 Fri
Author: Tathan
Subject: OK, I still have no idea who that is...
In reply to: Neilki(Avianith) Hythe(Ith) Havinka 's message, "Meh, supposed to be Toldeo, not Tiledo. Klinger!" on 07:26:18 06/03/05 Fri

Tathan just shrugged at their questions, rather overwhelmed by two humans and a dragon talking to him at once. What was there to say? After all, everything that had happened to him was natural, wasn’t it? He hadn’t fulfilled people’s expectations of him when he was Holdless, so they punished him for it, as they were entitled to. It was his fault for not doing what had been asked of him in the first place. So he needn’t bother telling these two young women that he had been hurt a lot, because they would expect it if they knew he hadn’t been good enough. At least, that was how Tath saw it. And as for what the other men had done to him sometimes, he didn’t want to tell anyone that. Nobody had told him it was a bad thing, after all, even if it did hurt. And besides that, it embarrassed him. To admit that he hadn’t resisted it in case he got hurt worse.

Thankfully an interruption came in the form of Havinka before he had to answer anything, and he kept absolutely silent while Nerilki and Hythe’s minds were engaged in something else. But then they seemed to remember that they had asked him a question, and returned to interrogating him. Why did they want to know? After a lifetime of being conditioned not to tell anyone anything in case it made them angry, Tathan just shrugged again.

“N-no reason, miss.” He answered quietly, still pretending to be focused on his task of unravelling wool. “I…I’m just not used to talking to people I don’t know. Everyone knew each other, where I came from, you know?” This seemed like a good excuse, even though he realised he’d said it too quietly. He should have sounded more confident for them to believe him. But he couldn’t undo it, and if they hit him (Tathan learned from an early age to accept a slap from anyone, even a woman), then they did. As long as they didn’t go too near his ribs – they were still sore from when they got broken before.


((*Grin* Whereas I was raised on Red Dwarf, the Hitchiker’s Guide, and various other rather dodgy books and TV/radio series. Like The Office. If you ever have a chance to watch that, please do. It’s so funny…but I suppose maybe a bit too dodgy at times. Red Dwarf rules…but don’t watch the series they made for the US. It was a flop, because they could never replace the guy who did Rimmer. Hehe.
“Come on, Rimmer! Look on the bright side!”
“Bright side?? What bright side? I’m dead, I’m composed entirely of light, and I’m alone in space with a man who’d loose a battle of wits with a stuffed iguana! Where’s the bright side?”
“Erm…what’s an iguana?”
And Ever after rules!))

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