May 6th, 2440 9:00 AM
Sera Kellen looked up as the bench shifted beneath her.
“I am V’oss T’rill. Are you thirsty?” he asked, holding out a second bottle of Dr Pepper.
“This cannot be good for us,” she sighed after taking a swig. “I am Sera Kellen.”
“Have you spent time among the humans?”
“Yes,” she said cautiously, wondering where this was going. “Have you?”
“I am being assigned to a place tonight. I will join my cousins, since I have no other family left.”
“Is that what you want? To join your cousins?”
“I do not know them. They are like you, not highborn.” He looked down at his bottle. “I do not know them.”
“My human friend K.C. gave me good advice. Do not try to be what the humans expect you to be, or even what our people expect you to be. Be who you need to be.”
Sera took another drink.
“We are not of V’ren anymore. We are V’ren of Earth.”
