What are your earliest memories?

I still have memories from the before-time but they're all out of order and I don't really know what they mean. We cast a lot of importance on our meals where I come from, so I have a lot of almost-memories of the *importance* of meals. Especially drinks. I remember at one point I was finally "allowed" to light a fire, and that was some kind of rite of passage. I also know I had a brother. I don't remember anything about him but I remember that I had one. I also know that when I was a kid I had a really serious illness and I almost died. But I don't remember what kind of illness it was, just that I considered myself lucky to be alive after it and that followed me even if the memory didn't. Almost everything I remember from "before" has the same feeling as most of my dreams do, almost exactly. I don't remember arriving here or how I came across. I do remember coming out of a long period of semi-awareness, feeling like I'd spent some time responding instinctively to the environment like animals do--like I'd been taking care of myself without much consciousness about myself. I happened to see a group of people--my first contact with humans--and followed them at a distance for a while to see where these creatures were going, and eventually I made contact with them and started listening to them speak. That I remember pretty well, their speech--because it seemed like a memory, the words they used were unfamiliar but I was remembering how to talk and the language just made a map and stayed recorded in my memory so I could use it to learn more. I figured out later that the humans I was following actually thought I was something called a yeti. That's pretty funny. But riding in their van got me into the city, where I spent a lot of time in dark areas spying on people, listening to them talk, and eventually talking to some of them, mostly children. I had a hard time staying alive in the city because I couldn't hunt and the food I scrounged sometimes made me sick, so I ended up back in the forest and that's when I met Weaver. My language skills got a lot better because of him. Sometimes even now I have times when I can't remember specifics about what I've been doing for the last few days or few weeks, but it happens less frequently as I get older.

Have you had any human friends or acquaintances before joining the current group?

Those hippies who thought I was a sasquatch. Some kids. No one whose name I remember.

Which was more difficult to deal with, watching over Ivy, Thursday, and Tab, or getting comfortable with the growing human populace of THTIB?

Transfering to life in the house was pretty hard for me. I hated it at first and sometimes I slept outside. Actually sometimes I still do. I think sometimes some of the humans are scared of me even though they know I won't do anything weird. I guess I just look the most like a monster to them. I don't really care. But it's hard to adjust to living with someone when they find it hard to look at you and can't have a normal conversation with you because they're too weirded out. I still felt on relatively familiar ground when we started raising children, because let's face it, I was still in my element then. So I'd say getting used to living in a house with a bunch of people from the normal world was more difficult than taking on new elements (the kids) in a situation I already felt I'd mastered. Though I have to say that meeting Zoe really made it worth it.

Any other languages beyond English you've become familiar with?

No.

Any foods you're particular to?

I prefer a steady diet of various meats, I've come to really enjoy steak. When living on our own out here that was definitely a taste I couldn't get, there aren't a lot of cows wandering around in the forest, so it was always smaller game, the biggest I ever got were goats and wild pigs.

Anything you've learned about yourself over the years since becoming acquainted... that you're willing to admit to?

I've learned that group dynamics are a lot different than just a twosome. Everything we did since becoming a group of four was a much bigger deal, everything had to be discussed and agreed upon, and I found that I had to be a lot more sure of my opinions so that I could voice them. When it was just me and Weaver we almost always had the same idea anyway, and once we had more people to bounce ourselves off of it was like our differences were enhanced. I learned more about being an individual when faced with a group to distinguish myself to.

What most amuses you about human society... and what also ticks you off?

This might sound weird but I think what amuses me most about humans is their fingernails. That's not really all of it, but it kind of sums up what I feel about them. Their fingernails don't really do anything. Some of the women paint them and make them a decoration, but they're like these weird little useless claws that grow out of the ends of their fingers and they're like "Hey, let's paint them!" It's like they're some kind of evolutionary mess. So much of their bodies are goofy, and probably would have NOT been selected for by nature if their brains weren't smart enough to make up for it. You know their eyes? Huge numbers of humans can't even see right with their eyes. So they invented glasses, contact lenses, and surgery to get around the fact that their eyes don't even work well enough to do the things they have to do. They grow hair on their heads--hah, and that's the ONLY place they have a lot of hair most of the time--and then they don't use it to keep themselves warm, they either cut most of it off or put chemicals or restraints in it to make themselves look good I guess, and then they're like "Oh I'm cold, let me go buy a coat." Their teeth. They have such tiny weak teeth, and then some of them pull them out when they get too many of them or put devices on them to put them in a straight line or whatever. They're just so . . . ornamental. I don't think I can even describe it so you'll understand. Anyway, and what "ticks me off" about them most is that they can feel it when they hurt themselves and each other and then they just keep doing it. It's not like they're doing it and they don't know it. They can knowingly eat or breathe things that are bad for them and just keep doing it. That just seems like an evolutionary quirk designed to kill their whole species. Or maybe now they know there's too many of them on the planet so some of them are subtly trying to kill themselves. I don't pretend to get it. But it pisses me off when a person is suffering because of something they did to themselves and they act like they deserve pity. No.