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Shooting Star

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Raleigh was adopted by a Saklarian with Symbol’s eyes and heterochromia, and a Valanu.  He got an older sister that was a Nephidae, one that was an Equina, and then a tiny-but older sister that was some odd combination of creatures.  It wasn’t that odd to him, in the long run; he ran into kids in school who had even more odd family combinations.  Alarcian mom, Petraergo dad, one kid a Srack and another a Symbol.  That sort of thing was fairly typical on Cruix.

What wasn’t exactly typical was the fact that Raleigh was apparently –he called it throwback when he was in a mood- someone who hearkened back to ancient genetics for a Symbol child.  He had glowing marks, a tail, extra long ears, and horns.  His tail grew a tuft, and his eyes were also green. His horns even had signs of his marks on them.  He really, really, really loved having all of these things.  It made ‘Show and Tell’ a lot of fun through the years, even as it morphed into ‘Tell me one thing about Yourself.’

He had a fair bit of energy to him, and wasn’t the easiest to keep on-task.  Luckily, his dad was up to the idea, and gave him plenty of reasons and rewards for it if he did as he was supposed to in regards to studies and learning.  It eventually evened out into a general interest in learning, and this included how his genes could have produced the traits it did, how to use his abilities as a Symbol more efficiently and how cultures worked in general.  His dad encouraged the heck out of this.

And when Raleigh showed up with the knack for making a bow fire bolts of energy, some time after his lessons in Aura Sight and manipulation started, Maxim made sure the kid got archery lessons.  Raleigh even had plenty of opportunities to practice alongside someone, because his big sister Malati was an archer- really, so was Papa Max, but the elder redhead preferred to stay out of the ‘contests’ that Malati and Raleigh could get into.

Whenever funds could be spared, Raleigh got a supervised trip to Kispria, to learn closer to first-hand about the genetics of the Symbols.  He also got more direct lessons in using the Aura-based gifts of his ancestors.  He got explanations for why his eyes weren’t quite as sharp as other Symbols’, and his ears were sharper.  Why he had different solar energy needs- sometimes just about any light would do, and he was gleeful to learn more about the culture of his people, full-stop.

After finishing primary school, Raleigh went to college on Kispria, with visits from his dads and two of his sisters.  Much as Cheyenne liked warm weather, the dry wasn’t her best friend, and so she tended to make Raleigh come home to visit her instead.  (They all agreed this was a touch selfish, but she sent lovely care packages as apologies, so no one razzed her about it.)  During his college years, he studied Genealogy in a primary fashion, trying to decipher why traits showed up only so often, and how they’d been mistaken for other reasons through time.  He was not in the slightest afraid to learn about cultural differences, and reasonings, so there was a Minor in Anthropology in his future as well.

What it led to was Raleigh taking up a job that allowed him to trace family trees to some extent.  He had to have a ‘root,’ to work with, and would only dig until he was told to stop, or until he found something the person was asking for.  But if he found more than they wanted, and they didn’t ask about it, he kept it to himself.  He wasn’t out to get anyone into trouble, after all.  Just to learn.

Raleigh kept up with the archery practice and Aura Senses the whole time, learning everything he could about control and using the talents he had available- even if they were stress-relief activities.  He never led anyone to believe he was ever stressed because he was always grinning around at people and moving nearly at a ‘breakneck’ pace as his Papa Max called it.  He never really stopped moving like that, through childhood, teen years, or even the tail-end of his doctorate-level classes in college, right before graduating.

He did eventually get enough work through other people (word of mouth as it were) that Raleigh could afford to consider a business proposition of ‘Tracing Trees.’  He mainly needed a person or three more to do the tracing, someone to be the business acumen- math support, and someone other than himself to be the ‘social face.’  It wasn’t that he couldn’t be the social face, but that he needed someone else for it so he could do any Tree Tracing at all.  But still, he had a yen to name it Tree Tracing in the first place, and after finally getting into contact with a rather cool Bemy cross named Men, Raleigh knew there were some gears turning in his favor.  While those gears turned though, he’d continue working closer to ‘freelance’ in terms of Genealogy work.
Symbols belong to =KingRefi
Zolgy, Alarcians, Chimera belong to =GiaZeries
Memitim, Nephidae, Petraergo belong to =Tenor
Valanir belong to nikkinicolep

CAE for Raleigh

[NaNoWriMo piece 45]
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