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So this is a small gift for 
for giving Chops some points to eat.
Thus there is a tidbit of private information regarding Chops as a reward. And that is?
-Truth is… She can’t walk. Or I should say she can walk but not very well or very far. Fact is- very few Shifters innately do. It’s not something that comes naturally to them. Mostly because Shifters don’t normally have, use, or need legs. And while walking can easily be taught by direct memory transfer. -There isn’t exactly a lot of other Shifters around that Chops can DC (Direct Connect) with.
In short- Chops is a klutz. When using legs- She falls. As in constantly. Truthfully it’s not easy for a being as top heavy as Chops to balance efficiently on two skinny little human legs. And her tiny curled feet don’t help. To be honest the portions of most anime witches are not all that well thought out from a rapid motion of solid mass prospective. Giant hats, big hair, even bigger boobs, and wide hips - all balancing on little chopstick legs with tiny feet. This build might be second nature for a human. But it’s not so normal or practical for a Shifter to make use of.
It would be like a human trying to learn how to ride around everywhere on a unicycle. Yes- you could probably learn to do it. But it’s retarded from a practicality standpoint. Similarly- Why walk on legs when you’re a Shifter? Shifters can just turn into a car or a miniature jet fighter and fly around wherever they want to go. Or they just slide everywhere on their monolith body like Chops is accustom to do doing.
However- people find things that slither around or slide in an otherworldly fashion, to be exceedingly creepy. Normally Chops wouldn’t care about such opinions. But she does want to learn to walk for Tromili’s sake. In her eyes it would make her more relatable. And that brings us to Sognathus 03.
Tromili is rather fond of trains. Always has been, always will be. One of the most spectacular type of trains out there are the great Space Trains. Flying multi-car passenger shuttles that are launched out of giant modified rail guns into space. These Space Trains shuttle important people and sometimes cargo from planet to planet. Tromili is naturally quite found of them. So when he got the opportunity to buy the wreckage of the Space Train Sognathus 03 at salvage lot rates- he immediately did so. Tromili had the wreckage placed about a mile and a half out from his house at SunRain. Originally he had planned to build a model train layout, guest house, bar, and pool room out of the cars. But one rainy season the very heavy train sank into a large patch of soft mud. And that was the end of that bright idea… So Tromili left the wreak as is and planted a spinach garden on top of it instead.
And there it sat- until the day that Chops decided to make this secluded sunken lair, her new home away from home. A private area where she could go to practice being a better Shifter. It took a lot of work to patch most of the holes in the hull. Not to mention getting lights and at least some of the life support systems running again. But it was worth it to have a lit area that wasn’t raining or freezing during the cold season. Although the occasional ground or snow slides would force Chops to have to dig the area out again… And after awhile everything kind of turned into a slope. Now that whole area is as lopsided as the damn train. But- it’s home. Sorta…
Chops doesn’t actually live there fulltime. She lives with Tromili and returns to her actual home every night. –Unless there is work to be done at Sognathus 03. But- Chops does spend most of the day there now. It’s a good, private, and peaceful place to get work done. Plus it makes good storage for her thing. (A large tea kettle she uses as a bed.) Yeah… Shifters are kind of minimalists… Although, she also has a can of fish flakes and a box of light bulbs to eat for snacks.
And it’s here at Sognathus 03 that she has decided to work on her leg walking today! Unfortunately it’s not going so well… She tripped and hit her hat “which is actually a part of her head) on a steel girder. It bent the front of her hat upwards for about an hour and hurt like hell! But she’s fine. It would take a hell of a lot more than steel beams to harm her in any way. In fact the only damage during the collision was to the metal beam. She left a nice dent in the metal along with some scraped off head armor from her hat. One of the many benefits to being a Shifter is a nearly impervious body built like a Greek god. So the only thing that was wounded was her pride. Demoralized- Chops wonders if she’s ever going to be able to walk like people do. She knows in the long run it’s not all that important. But it’s a personal goal of hers.
For now, Chops just sits there and thinks… Kinda bummed out, but looking forward to cat food back at the house. Chops wonders if maybe she should try being a size smaller than 7 or 8 feet tall. That might help…
Oh the up side- she did learn to transform into a pretty convincing black cat wearing a hat and socks! A must have for any witch person!
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