#post boonequest

I didn’t practice that feat exactly, it’s basically a combination of two skills.

The commissar is amazing at partially or completely field stripping weapons. It’s something she has practised to a bizarre level. She can do stuff like undo screws with her pinkies and disengage slides by gripping them correctly.

The only library in my sector of Hetrodyne was destroyed in an attack about half way through my 40 year exile there. So, on my rest days when I wasn’t training I would field strip weapons. For hours at a time. Sometimes every day of the week. I found it relaxing and it has come in useful more than once.

[seething exhalation]

I would see her doing it at her desk quite a lot. Either with her own weapons or with one she had selected from the armoury. Perhaps as a challenge to herself or just to give them a clean. It was fascinating to me because it’s the only thing I see her do that seems to have any degree of delicacy.

I would just watch her at first...but I eventually asked her if I could learn.

Now...I’ve only been doing it maybe 5 years and I am nothing like her, so like, I need tools and stuff to take a weapon apart, but with many weapons I have learned about where the screws are and what goes where and which pieces they come in to.

So basically, I have learned to deconstruct weapons with my hands...

and I’ve been training my my mind to do what my hands can.

Not certain, to be honest. Possibly somewhere in my genetic make up there is some genuine human genetics. I don’t really know where to start looking.

I have observed considerable differences in abhuman auxiliary troops depending on which planet they are stationed on and for how long they have been stationed there. Felinids that have been on hot planets for centuries tend to have less hair, for example. Ones from…pleasure worlds tend to have more human features.

My high melanin content is probably on account of the generations of my family that were raised on Trydusian Five, which aside from its factories and colonies is basically red rocky mesas and harsh deserts.

My horns, I generally keep filed down. Cant completely hide them, but its one of the reasons I try to keep my hair a little voluminous. my teeth are also abnormal, but again, I generally keep them hidden.

[subject grimaces, revealing large , slightly pointed teeth]

and…as the medicaes know I also have hair tufted around my knees and elbows. and have deformed feet.  Only two toes, and the nails are very large.

Believe me, the injustice is not lost on me.

I have seen so many good people perish while I , despite my efforts, continue to live on.

I occasionally consider taking matters into my own hands and evening out the numbers but… that’s an even bigger crime than my existence.

I assure you, I’m doing what I can.