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Warm and Cold

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Name: Adnan Gingin
Species: zocephaline human ba'eve. 
Type: Ringtail Mongoose (Galidia elegans)

Name: Siyanah Aqmar
Species: zocephaline human ba'eve. 
Type: Giant-striped Mongoose (Galidictis grandidieri )

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Adnan: I know you feel like you're alone. You think that no one understands what you have been through and that people will only see your injuries and not what you've accomplished. You complain about being alone all the time. So what I want to know is why my love isn't good enough for you to accept? 

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After hearing what Adnan had to say she missed the next physical therapy session. Adnan was done with his rehabilitation and had returned to active duty. When she returned she requested that her new partner in her recovery program be either same sexed or of different species. The medical staff began to worry that assigning them as partners for their recovery work might have been a mistake. Lately the two have been seen meeting together in various locations outside of work.  Whether this is a sign of a positive or negative development is the topic of much gossip among the medical staff.

These are some of the previous drawings I've done of her 
The Living Martyr by Zaphkiellane  the Girl who Came back was not the Girl who left by Zaphkiellane  Eyes in the sky, Head in the clouds by Zaphkiellane 

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I touched this drawing up with Gimp. It used pencil and watercolor. I'm getting familiar with digital media programs so these combined projects will become more common. 
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I'm guessing...Siyanah had her reasons for going into the military, knew the cost. Now she's down two legs, but determined to not slow down or show weakness; and unlike some I know she's open about her inorganic replacements...and tried to build them into her new identity.
But there's ghost pains, constant adjustments with the equipment rubbing and changing as the stumps change in size or pores get infected; she notices when kids stare and adults try not to. When she's part of a working team and everyone deals with her abilities, she isn't different. But in a personal relationship she can't hide behind her talents; she will have keep asking the other person questions and hope they're chatty, because otherwise the comments and their eyes always seem to return to her difference.  Adnan asks why his love isn't good enough, but...his interest is just a confirmation of her difference when she's trying like crazy to be as good as everyone else. And his attention is suspect, is she just a default friend...a charitable gesture on his part?

Anyway...its interesting to speculate on the complex peacetime that follows combat.