World Seed

Author’s Corner: Finally, after long hours and much arguing with the cable company, I HAVE INTERNET!

After taking a few hours to train myself, I reluctantly went out and introduced myself to the various elves on board the ship. Because I’m too lazy to list out all two hundred and fifty of them, I’ll just say that there was actually someone named Demuril Ackbar. And he was the tactical officer… I feel like this adventure just got more fun.

As for the other major positions, just like the queens had promised they were all taken. We even had a pair of chefs. One of them was actually assigned specifically for me and my ‘core party’, but I overruled that because we needed both of them for the regular crew. As I have said before, synthesized food just doesn’t taste the same.

Though, I can see there being obvious political advantages here for the elves, now that I’ve had time to think it over. First of all, all of the core crew positions are held by elves, and will be until one of the positions are vacated and a non-elf takes over. But at the same time, there’s nothing we can really do about that. We can’t exactly leave those positions empty until we find someone of another race that can do the job.

After introducing myself to the crew, and making sure that I at least knew their names, I hastily went back to resume my training. It’s not that I’m antisocial, it’s just that I don’t really do well with large groups of people. Wait, that’s the same thing, isn’t it? Well, don’t sweat the details!

Over the next few days, I began to notice a pattern in behavior with Yin and Sharon. Any time one of them came and chatted with me, the other would not be far behind. Now, I pride myself on not being a dense harem protagonist, so when two girls show this much interest in me, and seem to be competing for attention(no really, sometimes I’ll hear one of them say ‘I win’ before knocking), I know that they like me. I’m not going to pretend that they don’t, I’m not going to try to delude myself into thinking that I shall forever remain single. I will, however, resist!

I don’t particularly want to have a harem! I never have, and have been trying all this time to fight that idea with my very being. On the other hand, if I accept the affections of just one of them, then that would hurt the other… Oh great gods above, I wish for relationship advice!