Then there was her other (half-)sister, also older than her, Tiffany (Nickname of Theophania). She was 17 and was also fully African American. She had found a boy she would marry when she was 18. She only wanted him for the money. Alexandros was one of the richest black men on the planet and Tiffany was proud of him. In no way Tiffany loved him.

She also had a younger (full)brother who was 14, Theodore (full name Theodoros). He was, like Bette, only half-African American, which made both of them odd in the eyes of their community. They didn’t fit in, nowhere. Not in the white group, not in the black one. Off course their parents weren’t married, that wasn’t possible but that didn’t mean that bi-racial children didn’t exist. There wasn’t a law regarding those people because it was pretty rare which made it difficult for them to find a husband or wife. 

Bette was 18 and her father was looking for a man that wanted to marry her. Bette didn’t want to get married. She wanted to do and be more than a wife (read: slave) for some guy she didn’t even know. She knew her Dad would try to find a sweet man, because there were nice men out there, but she didn’t want a man. Since she knew what ‘gay’ meant, she knew that was exactly what she was. She liked girls. She didn’t know what was actually the problem with that. She had read history books and she knew that once up on a time there had been freedom. Women had the same rights as men, all people could get married to whomever they wanted, people weren’t forced to fit in boxes, not to the extent that it was the case now and people didn’t kill orphans. She was also scared. Being gay here just meant death, no freedom. She could never live her life how she wanted to. She would have to marry and have babies not having a voice in anything. Being treated like a living tool. She wanted to get away from here but she knew that it was impossible.

On the planet Vidar, Tina Kennard lived. Her real name was Justina Summer Kennard. She was 19 and a soldier for her planet. Her father and mother both died in a war, trying to save the humans from their tyrant when she was 15.