Mortal Protection Services Chapter 14: V.DB: Dilt Bifferent

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V.DB: Dilt Bifferent Bill brought me some fresh clean underpants, overpants, and t-shirt from his own supply of clean laundry. I also got some socks from him, but his extra shoes were way too big. Bill's a big guy and and I'm more medium sized. All his clothes were too big, but it only really mattered with shoes. Baggy pants and shirt are no problem... 'baggy' shoes give blisters if they even stay on at all. Molly, the purple eyed Krethellic clyman had one of their males weave me some slippers out of his natural silk. They were great, extremely comfortable shoes and I said so, vociferously... I knew all about the Krethellic. I just... forgot? I guess, in the moment. My mind was unfocused and struggling after my hyperspace suit had sizzled away. Before we get to my coming embarrassment in the dining facility - where I publicly received the slippers and openly praised them - I'd like to stall a while by explaining some things about the Krethellic. A fascinating species with three sexes, a rare evolutionary adaptation only found in a handful of sapient species. The males, which have sperm, the females, which have eggs, and the clymale, which have a catalyst material required for the the sperms and eggs to actually get together and make a new Krethellic grub. Clymale 'sauce' does also have some of the necessary genetic information, though biologically, their sauce was least costly to make of the three sexes, by a wide margin. This left more resources for them to put into their big ol' brains. Unlike terrans - where men and women are equally intelligent - Krethellic clymen are by far the most intelligent of their sexes, and all clymen are highly intelligent. All Krethellic understand language and most are smart enough to hold a conversation about the weather, but only the clymen are actually capable of understanding the most complex mathematics, warp engineering principles, regular engineering principles, complicated logistics, physics, chemistry and so on. Think of the most empty headed suburbanite you know, now stereotype them harder... make them little dumber than that. Maybe give them a quick concussion with a brick. That's it, perfect! You've reached the pinnacle of intellectual possibility for Krethellic males. And most are much, much dumber. To many terrans, the males seem less intelligent than smart dogs. But they can speak and they clean things well enough. They have their functions in Krethellic society, and just like terrans, unbonded males tend to form packs and cause trouble. Males are not allowed to vote, ever. The females are though, for certain things, mostly of domestic concerns. Only clymen have the full franchise, or hold high offices; it seems to work for them. The average Krethellic female's intelligence lies well on the higher end of in between male and clymale. Sometimes smarter females choose a gender expression closer to clymale and are found working as lab assistants and in the sciences. They also fill many early educational roles in Krethellic civilization. Female teachers in the first few years of schooling are not uncommon. Unbonded females sometimes fill the typically clymale roles of later educations, what is essentially highschool. Krethellic women often leave those roles and change gender expressions entirely when they find a clymale's family to bond with. Sometimes they don't though. Plenty of old lady bugs teaching the kids what's what well into their 80s and 90s. Krethellic don't retire. It is a foreign concept to them. The males, being dumb as hell, are generally only educated for the first five years after metamorphosis. After that they are adult in body form and mind, and can go off into their adult lives. Women take more like twenty years for a full education and maturation, though technically, they can start laying at about fifteen if they need to for some reason. Clymen generally aren't 'finished' until they are nearly thirty years post-metamorphosis. Typically they don't start trying to fo