Post by K on Jan 30, 2009 18:37:53 GMT -5
Things for the Readers to understand
First, even though I am a tiger, I am not from your planet. That means that even though your tigers and I are pretty much the same, we are not. My world is a lot larger than yours therefor I am bigger, the geography is different also. Even how we grow is likely not to match up with earth tigers. We do not have different breeds of tigers like siberian and bengal, sure some are bigger than others and live in different areas we don't really have different names for ourselves. The time I use is very arbitrary as we have no way of keeping time other than counting days and to tell you honestly, I didn't really do that. Also, I am still a little mixed up after the transition, some things I might go back and change becuase I realized that I wasn't accurate. Know that tigers age faster than you humans and therefor, we become wise faster, even though an adult tiger dies around the age of ten years, which is young by human standards, they will still have the mindset of an eighty year old in human standards. I will be writing this so humans can understand it as I know that it is unlikely I will find a non-human audience and the non-human audience that I might find (you know who you are) should propably know enough of human words that it shouldn't be a trouble or have a human around to ask. Names in tiger, I will give you translations if possible (like my own name) or spell it to the best of my ability to make it look like it sounds, you won't be able to say it right though so don't try, just mangle it and know you are doing it as tigers and humans posses entirely different ways of talking.
Look, this is a story of my life and while you are my audience it was written for me. I have made mistakes in my past, things which still hurt, and there are few truly happy times in my life. Please don't judge me. It's a harsh world and I did the best I could with my own teeth and claws. I hope that if none of you shall have to face choices like mine, but if you do, I hope you find my recollections usefull in choosing a better path.
Lily Gowgarren
First, even though I am a tiger, I am not from your planet. That means that even though your tigers and I are pretty much the same, we are not. My world is a lot larger than yours therefor I am bigger, the geography is different also. Even how we grow is likely not to match up with earth tigers. We do not have different breeds of tigers like siberian and bengal, sure some are bigger than others and live in different areas we don't really have different names for ourselves. The time I use is very arbitrary as we have no way of keeping time other than counting days and to tell you honestly, I didn't really do that. Also, I am still a little mixed up after the transition, some things I might go back and change becuase I realized that I wasn't accurate. Know that tigers age faster than you humans and therefor, we become wise faster, even though an adult tiger dies around the age of ten years, which is young by human standards, they will still have the mindset of an eighty year old in human standards. I will be writing this so humans can understand it as I know that it is unlikely I will find a non-human audience and the non-human audience that I might find (you know who you are) should propably know enough of human words that it shouldn't be a trouble or have a human around to ask. Names in tiger, I will give you translations if possible (like my own name) or spell it to the best of my ability to make it look like it sounds, you won't be able to say it right though so don't try, just mangle it and know you are doing it as tigers and humans posses entirely different ways of talking.
Look, this is a story of my life and while you are my audience it was written for me. I have made mistakes in my past, things which still hurt, and there are few truly happy times in my life. Please don't judge me. It's a harsh world and I did the best I could with my own teeth and claws. I hope that if none of you shall have to face choices like mine, but if you do, I hope you find my recollections usefull in choosing a better path.
Lily Gowgarren