It’s only been about a Week, but it feels like it’s been a Year… It feels like everything is happening too quickly…

Anyways, everyone’s currently having Dinner, the rest of the Food has already been packed up for later. Demitallis and Steriya, with a few others, went off to gather food. Steriya said they had gathered around 100 to 150 Bison. The Bison, for their size, didn’t really have much meat, I mean, each one had a ton of meat, but not as much as you might expect, for such large creatures.

I’ve been coming up with Jobs and Sub Roles for everyone, we can’t expect this meat to last longer than 3 Days, and the team that went is too exhausted to go on another. Currently, I’ve come up with:

Hunters, Light Bearers, Warriors, Resource Processors, and Specialists.

Hunter Jobs:

Trackers: The Hunting job is as it sounds, these people will be doing the Hunting.

Slayers: Slayers like Veyta and Tenztore will be doing the killing.

Supporters: Supporters like Talliope and Glant will be making sure the Slayers don’t die.

Gatherers: Gatherers will be gathering other resources we might need, like Materials, Herbs, Fruits and Vegetables, and anything that might come up.

Light Bearer Jobs:

Guides: The Guides will be taking information from the Scouts to guide the family forward.

Scouts: Scouts will be gathering information for everyone, they’ll be extremely important.

Leaders: Leaders will be a select few People we can trust to make final Decisions at a moments notice, I’m think Demi or Lex could fit these Roles.

Warrior Jobs:

Soldiers: Soldiers will be taking care of outside Threats and Jobs, basically, a Great Offense can also be a Great Defense.

Guardians: Guardians will be our primary protectors, they’ll dispel any conflicts amongst Family members, and will be defending everyone from any attackers that manage to get past the Soldiers.

Watchers: The Watchers will be watching over everyone, they’ll be calling in Guardians if they see something wrong, or they could call in Soldiers if they happen to notice a threat early on.

Medics: Medics will be keeping everyone healthy and clean, so in case somebody is hurt, they’ll be trying to reduce everyone’s chance of death by as much as they can.

Resource Processor Jobs:

Chefs: Chefs will be processing the Food the Hunters gather, and will be giving it to the Distributors.

Distributors: Distributors will be keeping an eye on everyone’s needs and providing it to them, it’s a Role that isn’t even possible without the majority of the others, but it’s necessary.

Managers: Managers will be keeping watch over just about everything, and making sure everything is going well.

Inventors: Inventors will be taking care of everyone’s equipment, making sure they don’t break, and just keeping everything in top shape.

Courriers: Couriers will be getting all of our Resources around safely, they’ll be super necessary since we’re going to be moving a lot.

Specialists:

Specialists won’t have any specific Roles, they’ll be doing whatever any other Role couldn’t, or they’ll be taking care of very specific Jobs that couldn’t be done without them.

So that makes 16 Jobs I’ve come up with so far. This is what they should look like simplified:

Hunters: Trackers, Slayers, Supporters, Gatherers.

Light Bearers: Guides, Scouts, Leaders.

Warriors: Soldiers, Guardians, Watchers, Medics.

Resource Processors: Chefs, Distributors, Managers, Inventors, Courriers.

Specialists.

I finish my dinner, and stand up. I walk over to the new Lake Demi has made, and I look into it. “Are you there, Demi?” I feel her Mind connects to my own. Demi - “Hey, how’s it been Veloura? Is there anything you need?” She greets me, as I just stare into the Pond.

There’s no movements whatsoever, if I didn’t know better, I would have just assumed it was a normal Lake... “I’ve been coming up with Jobs for everyone.” Everyone within hearing distance looks over at me. Demi - “Wait, for EVERYONE? Like, all 20,000?”

Oh, that’s the problem. “No, not like individual jobs like that, but I’ve come up with a Set and Subsets that anyone in our Family can join. There’s still 20,000 of us, whether we like it or not, if we want to function, we’ll have to come up with Jobs.” Everyone continues to stare at Demi, as she just sits there...

It’s honestly kind of creepy how she can’t emote... Demi - “You have a good point... So what do you have in mind? I assume not everyone can fit these Jobs, a mean portion of our Siblings are still too young to actually work.”

I look around and notice Zoltin and Trabta have brought me some Parchment and Chalk, thank god Zoltin’s great at reading the situation. “Thank you Zoltin.” He gives me the Parchment and Chalk, and I start writing down all of the Jobs and Roles with minorly detailed descriptions.

An Earth Wall raises up behind me, and I stick the Large Parchment to it. Everyone looks at it closely, and more of the Children start to approach. Demi - “Alright, this all makes sense, I think I’m gonna’ be a Specialist, or a Soldier... Can we choose multiple professions?” Oh, I hadn’t even thought about that...

“Yeah, I guess, I don’t see why not.” Demi responds immediately to this. Demi - “Right, if I can get enough Mana, I can export this Information to everyone, I made the Skill while I was out Hunting.” Wait, seriously?

That’s way better than the Parchment! “Are you for real?!Why didn’t you tell me sooner?! This’ll be so much faster!” I shout with Excitement, as I feel the network connect to another. Demi - “Hey... Calvinaz-Genesis... I uh, I need more Mana...” I look over to where Calvin and Celscy are lying down together, and I watch Calvin sit up and look at us.

Calv - “Am I going to have to start charging with interest, Demitallis-Genesis?” He says coldly. Velo - “Come on, you have the greatest amount of Mana out of everyone here, and Demi said she could send information to everyone directly, it’ll be really helpful!” I say to him, as he begins to walk over.

Calv - “Fine... How much do you need? This better be good.” Calvin holds his front right claw over Demi’s pond. Demi - “Well, first I have to connect to everyone again, then I have to directly input all of the Information into their Memories, of course, I won’t be doing this for the youngest of our Siblings, just anyone who can actually work.” Calvin nods, and thinks to himself for a bit, before he starts pouring a large amount of Mana into Demi’s Pond.

I can sense the majority of the Family get connected, and I can feel the Information enter my head... It’s giving me a headache, I deny the information since I already have it all in greater detail. Once Demi finishes explaining everything, she returns the leftover Mana to Calvin, and he speaks up. “I think I might enjoy being a Guardian, I’ll go see what Celscinaga-Genesis thinks, I like the idea of lying around all day...” Calvin walks back to Celscy as she looks at him.

“I plan on being a Manager, Demi, I was actually thinking you could take up a position as a Leader, since you seem to have a knack for it.” Demi has gone silent, you can usually hear unprocessed brain waves coming from her, since she can’t actually control what comes through, just what gets processed, it’s actually really useful for the Telepathy Network.

Demi continues to just sit there, until she finally speaks up. Demi - “I... I don’t think I would make a good Leader, I bet Lex or you could, but I’d definitely fail.” Wait, really? “But why?” Demi continues. Demi - “Well, I don’t think I would be the worst leader, but I really just want to go on Adventures, I don’t want to have to make those kinds of Decisions...” I sigh and shrug. “Well, okay then, it doesn’t really matter anyways, there’s probably gonna’ be a ton of us who want to take up the Leader Position anyways.”

I decided to walk back to where I ate my dinner, and sit back down. “So you came up with this, Veloura? This is already pretty thorough. You’re forgetting entertainment though...” Ah, Nikamao, another one of our Cat Siblings, yeah, sadly it’s not just Lex and Vexalan.

We have a ton of different Cat Demi-Humans in our Family.. “Oh, Entertainment, I guess you’re right, I’ll come up with some later, and try and inform everyone on it.” Nikamao is a Sabertooth Demi-Human, Mother used to talk about how lucky we all were to have a sister like Nikamao, and I think I know why now.

Nikamao stands at 6 Feet tall, so she’s a lot bigger than most of us, I mean, Tenztore dwarfs her, but she’s still pretty impressive. Her build is actually pretty muscular, and she loves to give bear hugs, usually strangling anyone who decides to take her on.

Veyta weirdly enough loves hugging her. Anyways, Nikamao doesn’t really care about dressup so she’s just wearing a Tanktop and jeans with tears where the knees jet out. Aside from that, she has the same Triangles on her Forehead like me, and her body is covered in fur, unlike Lex and Vexalan. Mother said that they usually live in colder areas, so they usually have more fur. Moving on, her Fur is a Sunny Yellow, with vertical lines that run across the front half of her arms, they would look like Cut Marks, if her Tail didn’t have those same markings, but instead those ones completely ring her long tail. She actually sometimes holds items up with her Tail, it’s like Lex’s but even more dexterous. Her hair is pretty large and fluffy, it stretches down to the back of her Knees, and flows like a Glorious Sunny Mane. Sometimes everyone jokes about her being the Sun itself come down to Earth.

“So, what professions do you plan to go for then?” I say, as she rubs her chin with her fingers. “Well, I mostly plan to wait on those Entertainment Roals, I mean, I was born with some mean guns, but what I really like to do is entertain. How about you?” Nikamao looks at me with curiosity.

“Well, now that I’ve had a little more time to think about it, I was thinking about Watcher and Guide, I bet my skills would be really helpful there.” Nkamao nods in surprise, while she starts thinking. “I was thinking you would choose Leader or Manager, but I can see how those Positions make more sense.”

I was about to say something, until another one of my Siblings cut in. “I plan to be a Scout and Courrier, Veloura, my widespread Teleportation Skills will be invaluable in those areas!” It’s Steriya, she decided to come hang out over here for a while.

“Oh yeah, that does sound really useful, Steriya.” Steriya is actually an Earth Elemental, specifically a Porcelain Elemental, she used to paint pictures on her body whenever she got bored. Steriya’s body is made up of almost seamlessly connected parts, it’s easy to tell that her body has been meticulously put together for her Core. Her Body is connected together via the Joints, and she used to be able to actually switch out broken ones for new ones. Currently she’s 4 feet tall, but she used to have a Body that was as tall as Tenztore, she would oftenly switch them out. She’s wearing a Tanktop like Mikamao with a Coat tied stylishly around her waist and a Long Skirt. In her Hair is a Fuschia Colored Porcelain Flower she made herself.

“Have you been careful with your Body, Steriya? We don’t have access to your old parts anymore, so I’ve been a little worried.” Steriya just stares at me, and places her cheek in her hand, while looking away.

“It’s mostly been okay, I’ve been trying to get Jebbestine to teach me Earth Magic, so I can try and repair these cracks in my Body.” Steriya shows me a few cracks on her Arms, and around her joints.

She usually walks around a lot more slowly and smoothly when she’s worried her body is breaking down, but I myself am still worried... “Just be careful, Steriya, if we have to carry you, we would prefer it isn’t in multiple pieces.”

Steriya laughs a little, as she looks at the Night Sky. “So, what do we even plan to do? Where do we plan to go? I mean, we don’t even know any places.” Damn, Steriya is right, we really didn’t plan many things out. I look over at Demi’s Pond...

“Well, Demi is the only one of us who seems to have really planned anything out... So maybe she knows where we could go?” Steriya looks over at Demi, and stands up. “I guess I’ll go ask, see ya’.” Steriya starts walking over to Demi, and I look over a Nikamao, or well, where she was.

Nikamao must have left a while ago, she’s probably looking for something to do, she gets bored easily. I think I’m gonna’ finally go to sleep, I’ve been getting pretty tired, and looking at the Moons... It’s almost Midnight.

I rest my Body against a Tree, it’s got a nice shape for sleeping against. One of my younger Siblings noticed me going to sleep and decided to sleep next to me, it’s cold so they’re probably trying to combine our Body Heat... None of us has ever really slept together, aside from the Fire Group, so I’m slightly uncomfortable...

Some of my other Siblings sit right next to us, further pooling our heat... Come on guys, what is this, I’m trying to sleep... Screw it, it’s friggin’ cold anyways...

End of Chapter: 4√C “We’re going to do this right, I’m determined.”

Thank you for reading.

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