Jostle Druhk around so she had to keep their horseplay out of sight. Walking the rest of the way to the table Father didn’t like seeing Spheina She finally let him down and they finished Druhk attempted to kick her for a short time before he tired of theĪttack and hung limp, defeated and annoyed. Him off the floor enough to carry him, dangling and flailing like a beetle overĪ stew pot. Spheina managed to grab his arms and lift You, grubworm,” she said, giving one of his ears a flick, which caused Druhk to Person!?” he squealed in protest, crawling out of the blankets and giving her aįinal swat before straightening his pajamas. “Why can’t you just wake me up like a normal Wouldn’t happen,” she jeered, snickering as his little hands swatted her legs. “If you’d get your lazy butt up sooner this Spheina picked him up, blankets and all, and deposited him on theįloor, prodding him with her foot as he tried to escape the tangle of fabric. Now) and attempted to fight her off, though compared to her he had the strength Screeched like he did every morning (you would think he’d be used to this by She leapt from the thresholdĭirectly onto Druhk’s bed and smothered him in his blankets, cackling loudly. With barely a “Good morning.” She was just short enough to make it through theĭoor without ducking, even at full sprint. Table set she scurried to her brother’s room, passing Father in the hallway ![]() With this idea brewing in her head and the If she couldn’t use her cunning as she was meant to, And he was always willing to make mischief with her, bless Father never let her do anythingįun, so she would use Druhk as a vehicle to get away with more than she was Had carefully cultivated over his short life. Oh, how very clever she felt,Īnd she just knew Druhk would agree. Once their father left for the stock exchange. This particular morning Spheina had decided to implement aĭevilish idea she’d been planning for a few days, one that they would only be able to execute Pretend to be space pirates instead (Father didn’t need to know that). Get a little farther before she also tired of the experience and they would Insult, Druhk would whine louder and they’d have to start over. Spheina would get annoyed, Druhk would whine, Spheina would Read ahead and refresh her own knowledge regularly then got impatient when heĬouldn’t remember. Especially when his older sister liked to Six year olds really didn’t enjoy sitting still and quizzing over Her head was big of course, butĮven all this was a tight fit, especially at her age.įocused. Now, and that made three hats she was forced to wear. Adding housewife to the list, since there was no actual wife in the house This meant that she had, unfortunately, beenįorced to adopt the roll of a mother on top of the chores a daughter usually Keeping the house in order that included helping him memorize the Rules ofīoy with his Rules, but Mother wasn’t here and much to Spheina’s dismay herįather had refused to remarry. The day, leaving Spheina to care for her brother, Druhk, alone. The two children were still eating when father bid them goodbye and left for Would eat together while father studied the day’s stock projections. When the food was doneĪnd her father had showed up to eat she would go to wake her brother, then they Younger brother so everything would be ready in time. Of time to make the meal she had to get up well before both her father and She always had since her mother was alive. Her current age of 13, but she performed it as dutifully (if begrudgingly) as It was a lot of responsibility for someone so young, starting at age seven to Six years Spheina had been the one to prepare all the meals, not just breakfast,Įver since her mother passed away leaving her as the only female in the house. ![]() Promptly on the table a half hour before he had to leave for work. What to expect: Two Ferengi kiddos head out to the market on their own for the first time, because breaking the rules is fun! An overall lighthearted read with a small glimpse into a young girl’s struggle with society’s extreme limitations of her rights, and her painful awareness of it. Each chapter shifts perspective and takes place a few years after the previous one. A Star Trek OC fic, featuring my Ferengi characters through various steps of their childhood following them through the years to early adulthood.
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