augmentedspartan
Surviving in the Metro
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Deimos said nothing as the others talked, he just nodded politely every once in a while. It's not that he wasn't paying attention, he was, it would be rude not to, but it's not like he could interrupt mid life story with any particular useful insight. There was quite a juxtaposition between their lives and his, and he doubted any of his experiences could measure up to junkyard racing or being part of a mafia family. Although he felt that these stories were the type of stories one would rather hear than live through, so he didn't much care that his life wasn't nearly as exciting. After all, he was going to share what passed as a ship with these people, so boring was probably going to disappear from his life soon enough. And it seemed the Universe wanted to prove him right, because in walked Yalyax.
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Deimos was very much aware of the existence of aliens, he had lived on earth after all, but his job as a <em>human</em> physician didn't really expose him to non-human life that often. The biggest surprise, though, was that he had never seen a member of this particular species before, not on TV nor the Internet, and he liked to search about alien medical procedures and anatomy. Inspecting him (she/them/it?) up and down Deimos took note of all the similarities and differences he could find between Yalyax and the average human. He would be treating him from now on, so he should learn which parts of his knowledge he could apply, and which ones he would have to adapt. Thankfully, he had seen much more bizarre alien physiology before, so he wasn't too worried about it. Although he was sure he would spend more time with his medical history than with any of the other crew's.
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Deimos said nothing as the others talked, he just nodded politely every once in a while. It's not that he wasn't paying attention, he was, it would be rude not to, but it's not like he could interrupt mid life story with any particular useful insight. There was quite a juxtaposition between their lives and his, and he doubted any of his experiences could measure up to junkyard racing or being part of a mafia family. Although he felt that these stories were the type of stories one would rather hear than live through, so he didn't much care that his life wasn't nearly as exciting. After all, he was going to share what passed as a ship with these people, so boring was probably going to disappear from his life soon enough. And it seemed the Universe wanted to prove him right, because in walked Yalyax.
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Deimos was very much aware of the existence of aliens, he had lived on earth after all, but his job as a <em>human</em> physician didn't really expose him to non-human life that often. The biggest surprise, though, was that he had never seen a member of this particular species before, not on TV nor the Internet, and he liked to search about alien medical procedures and anatomy. Inspecting him (she/them/it?) up and down Deimos took note of all the similarities and differences he could find between Yalyax and the average human. He would be treating him from now on, so he should learn which parts of his knowledge he could apply, and which ones he would have to adapt. Thankfully, he had seen much more bizarre alien physiology before, so he wasn't too worried about it. Although he was sure he would spend more time with his medical history than with any of the other crew's.
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