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After The Change Came
Series 3
A Morning For Another Interview
The Times Interview: Grace, Lily & Gigi
I’m off to China in a few minutes. Will write an entry later today. In the meantime, here’s the Times interview with Grace, Lily & Gigi.
Times: Congratulations on your newish babies!
Grace: Thank you.
Gigi: Yes, thank you..
Lily: No babies here, and none anticipated for a decade or two.
(laughter all around)
Times: Actually, Lily, our first reader question is for you. Melanie from Armstrong City wants to know if you had any problems going from cat to catgirl.
Lily: Oh man, did I ever. First off, my whole perspective changed because I was way taller and seeing things from up high. Then there was walking on two legs, which took an hour or so to get used too. Then there were human breasts, no more claws, feet & hands instead of paws, actually speaking out of my mouth instead of telepathically, no more using a litter box…I’m glad the Wizard who helped me had spells to speed the learning.
Times: I asked Roscoe about the going Anthro thing and he said you could give a better answer as to why so many cats do it. So, why is that?
Lily: It’s the whole mental maturity thing, really. You realize that you are going to be stuck at a teenage level for the rest of your life then and you start thinking about your human and other friends drifting away from you when they hit adulthood. I mean, Roscoe graduated high school while I was still in third grade, and he’s only 4 days older than me. Lots of Smart Cats feel that way. I’d be lying if I said we didn’t all want hands and humanoid bodies, too. So I took the plunge and I’m very glad I did.
Times: Grace, how did you and Doc feel about it?
Grace: Well, Lily had discussed it with me and I told her to just be what she wanted to be. She didn’t tell her dad about it because she knew that he’d be ok with it. Even before the Change, Doc was never one to care much about race, sex or species.
Times: Lucky Lily. My parents freaked out when I got my nose pierced at age 22.
(more laughter)
Times: Grace, the next question is for you and comes from Nikolai, who works on the L3 colony. He asks “How much did you change when you became a Green Lady?”
Grace: Physically, I got a bit taller, my skin turned green, my eyes got much greener and there were some internal changes.
Lily: Her poop doesn’t stink!
Gigi: And she smells great all the time! No perfume for her!
Grace: (laughs) Well, yes, those are both true. My body composts my waste after it gets done digesting food. It’s really quite efficient. As for the way I smell, that’s just the various smells of nature. Botanicals, mostly, but Doc has told me that I sometimes smell like a baby bunny or other young animal. I do still menstruate, but there is never any PMS or cramping or such. Considering that I was pre-menopausal before the Change, that’s a real blessing.
Lily: And she has babies crazy fast and easy, too.
Gigi: It took me just over 45 minutes to have my four.
Grace: (chuckles) Yes, my mother and mother in law thought it was darned near criminal that I had such an easy birth process.
Times: No kidding. I have two boys, born in zero gee and each of them took well over an hour.
Grace: Gerry was in labor 22 hours with Doc.
Lily: Oh yeah, it’ll be a celibate life for me!
(laughter)
Grace and Gigi: Too late!
Lily: That was when I was a cat! It doesn’t count.
Times: Anyway, the mental changes were…?
Grace: Well, mostly an awareness of the natural world on a level that was a bit mindblowing at first. Then there was the part about being linked to my 9,999 Sisters around the world. The first time we communed, Doc thought I was stoned. It’s not something I can even explain to you.
Lily: We call her “Dreamy Mom” when that happens. You just have to sort of work around her, because she’s not really there with you anymore.
Times: Fascinating. Gigi, the next two questions are for you from a kindergarten class. First, do you talk to dogs who aren’t Smart? Second, what is your kindergarten class like?
Gigi: Yes, I do talk to normal dogs. It’s kind of like talking to a small child, but they are usually very nice and they are smarter than they were before the Change. My kindergarten class is 24 children, some human, some Smart Animals and many New Races. We do all of the things human classes do, but there are some differences. Nap times vary because some species have different ways of sleeping. We also do lots of day trips so the children can learn about how other people live and work. Last week, we visited Skooskorix, Sacramento’s resident Dragon. She showed us around her home and served everyone cookies and milk. Next week, we’ll be visiting the bus depot to talk to the anibuses.
Times: Here’s one from me, Gigi. How did you and Roscoe meet?
Gigi: Well, our actual first meeting was at the first Smart Animal Convention back in 2001. We were both 2 years old and there were so many other folks there that we barely chatted, even in the Smart Dog group. Of course, we were also both about 7 years old, mentally.
After that, we met every few months at various SA or SD get togethers, if he was able to get there. Doc & Grace were traveling quite a bit then, but they usually made sure he and Lily got to SA meetups. A couple of years later, after they all settled down on the farm, I was seeing him nearly every month at meetups, gaming cons, etc. From there, love & romance just sort of happened. He’s really a Romantic fellow, considering what a big old geek he is.
Lily: Yeah, you could see them making googoo eyes at each other at cons. It was hella funny, but also very sweet.
Gigi: Sort of like the way you and Marty make googoo eyes at each other?
Lily: We do NOT!
Grace: Oh yes you do, sweetheart. He’s a very nice young man and you make a cute couple.
Lily: We…I…He… (silence follows)
Times: One final question for the three of you. Where do you see yourselves in ten years?
Lily: Graduated from college. After that, I’m clueless.
Gigi: I’ll be an Empty Nester at the age of 25, still teaching kindergarten or maybe first grade and doing a bit more traveling with my husband.
Grace: I’ll be much the same as I am now, only with two pre-teens. I might be a great-grandmother.
Times: Well, thank you all for your time.
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