Date: 21 Aug 2011 01:40 Title: Seventh Stage – Ice Cream
Wow! I didn't realize there was a new chapter!
I love these tentative first steps indeed. :-) A lot of people skip over this kind of stuff in a relationship, but it works very well.
And a butcher...what an interesting occupation for a Klingon. And I also liked what he said about treating the animals honorably. We don't often see such applications of Klingon honor principles, but it seems fitting. (It also seems he must've read the works of people like Temple Grandin.)
Author's Response:
Now I need to Google Temple Grandin.
I was thinking a bit of some aboriginal cultures where the hunter apologizes to the prey before dispatching it. I have a friend, a very sweet person, who is a fishmonger. He's this nice, gentle guy who also, every day at work, kills lobsters. But I also wanted it to be a way for Kit to be a gentler kind of a guy. He's been around humans, he realizes that sometimes even language bothers people, and he has learned to not play rough with beasts. Also wanted the contrast of, he ends lives every day, but does so with respect and honor and as much kindness as he can muster. I think with human-Klingon relationships, there kind of has to be something gentling the Klingon a bit. Otherwise, it seems like the human would really get knocked around, and not just between the sheets. I would think that in such a relationship, the Klingon would be dominant in other ways, and Gina is too much of her own person to allow herself to be subjugated like that.
Thank you, as always! :)