jayrockin:Centaur aliens start small and don’t stay that way. Talita was left as an infant on
jayrockin:Centaur aliens start small and don’t stay that way. Talita was left as an infant on the Nexus Jovia youth foster care facility doorstep in a cat carrier, and chaos ensued. The facility was not prepared to deal with a sapient non-human in any way, and they tried arranging to send her to the centaur homeplanet, but the Jovian embassy there quickly informed them that would be a death sentence for her. Centaurs don’t really…. do foster care. Especially for random infants who can’t even talk yet. The local clans they asked for advice recommended culling her. (Both centaurs and scuds are r-selection animals that hastily adapted social strategies for dealing with having too many babies when they got sapient, i.e., reproductive hierarchies and strategic infanticide.)The human foster workers, not too keen on offing an abandoned infant, ended up learning how to take care of her with the help of local xenophysicians and researchers. A worker named Douglas Esteves especially took an interest in her care and is largely the reason Talita ended up as healthy as she is in present day Runaway to the Stars.PATREON | STORE -- source link