I noticed in the stories she talks about a cruel master. Yet in the stories when she started, she was rescued as an infant in the creches when the factory that made beings like her, selling them as slaves, was found by the CRC and shut down. Was she kidnapped and abused at one point?
internutter744 hours ago
That is because I forgot my own continuity XD
Gonna have to sandwich in an abuser at some point blargh.
@internutter/challenge-03362-i074-mutual-fascination -- DaniAndShali
Lillicoon spent forty-eight hours in the Foster Home. On the morning of the third, she was told, "Pack your things, we have a bidder."
The key problem, she found out much later, was that the CRC had a sudden influx of Uplifted infants and not enough homes willing to host them. Even the eternally wanting sea of potential parents was tested to snapping.
This particular foster place was a foster house in name only. They always had one more spot for a needy child, but they never seemed to have any children. They were always out. Out playing with friends, out on extracurricular activities, out at a sleepover. That is, if they were asked.
The other problem was that they knew too many people like the people responsible for the tragedy of Nufurria.
As a direct result, Lillicoon flinched at the word can't. Her master had used it like bullets against her. Forced her, with catlike hands, to do things only human hands were capable of. Only later therapists would tell her that she was quite good at it.
It took her months to believe them.
"The sad part," she told Jay in a soft and pleasant murmur, "is that there were hundreds of others. The CRC is still tracking them down."
"That explains the job list at Pax," said Jay. "New names every day. Guess there's a lot of people who--" they cut off, remembering Lillicoon's offensensitivity limits. "--earned some punishment."
Lillicoon had no illusions about what Jay or Mr Sunshine were. She just didn't like to hear about it. In many ways, they were safer than some people in her childhood. "Yes. I know. I have... a small list, myself."
It was hand-written, so it would not be traceable. Neat, pretty letters spelled out four people. One in inverted commas.
"If you can, I would be grateful if you and your tutor bid for these ones."
Jay had a smile that scared too many people, but it never scared Lillicoon. "It would be my pleasure."
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