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After spending a year as pure consciousness, being corporeal again had taken some getting used to. It helped that one of the first things he, Ra'jel, Yulyn and Renee had done was find Lili and Ariel on the remains of Jaridia and bring them on board.
Having one of his oldest friends back in his life helped immensely, and Ariel was great, mostly. Of course, she was also two, and not a great conversationalist. Most of her vocabulary revolved around demanding someone give her whatever random Taelon object she'd decided was a plaything today.
Liam tried not to think about how at two years old, he'd been working to save three species from annihilation. And hey, he'd managed one out of three, so not bad, right?
Still, sometimes the reminder of the fact that he'd missed out on not just a normal human childhood, but a normal human life where he wasn't at the center of a complex interstellar power struggle was a bit much.
Lili had come to him, one day, and asked him what he thought about maybe going back to Earth for a bit, just him? And explained that Ra'jel had found a mention of a little island off Maryland's coast in the Mothership databanks, inhabited, but small enough that the Taelons had deemed it unimportant and essentially left it alone.
At first, he'd been kind of hurt, wondering why she'd want him to go away after they'd just come back into each other's lives. But then she'd explained that it wasn't about wanting him to go away, but wanting him to experience what life on Earth was like without the Resistance, without the Taelons, without war with the Jaridians. But eventually he'd come around to the idea, and let Ra'jel tell him what he knew (which wasn't much) about this 'Fandom' place...
Having one of his oldest friends back in his life helped immensely, and Ariel was great, mostly. Of course, she was also two, and not a great conversationalist. Most of her vocabulary revolved around demanding someone give her whatever random Taelon object she'd decided was a plaything today.
Liam tried not to think about how at two years old, he'd been working to save three species from annihilation. And hey, he'd managed one out of three, so not bad, right?
Still, sometimes the reminder of the fact that he'd missed out on not just a normal human childhood, but a normal human life where he wasn't at the center of a complex interstellar power struggle was a bit much.
Lili had come to him, one day, and asked him what he thought about maybe going back to Earth for a bit, just him? And explained that Ra'jel had found a mention of a little island off Maryland's coast in the Mothership databanks, inhabited, but small enough that the Taelons had deemed it unimportant and essentially left it alone.
At first, he'd been kind of hurt, wondering why she'd want him to go away after they'd just come back into each other's lives. But then she'd explained that it wasn't about wanting him to go away, but wanting him to experience what life on Earth was like without the Resistance, without the Taelons, without war with the Jaridians. But eventually he'd come around to the idea, and let Ra'jel tell him what he knew (which wasn't much) about this 'Fandom' place...
