Skill Shuffle

Sunny bounced in place as the census-taker sat across from him, waiting for the next question as the grownup wrote something-or-another about what he'd said, and possibly notes on whatever it was that grownups liked to decided that meant. Like from last month, after talking with a whole bunch of xeros, the people who had taken the survey had looked at the information and had said that Xeros liked to stand mostly, which meant that Sunny had been working hard to walk on all fours some...

*Ding* a new notification on her computer popped up right when she walked back into her house. “What could that be?” Phoebe wiped her paws so she would get dirt all over the floor and opened the message.    Looking for Xero volunteers! ...

"If you could remove or add any mutation to yourself, what would it be and why?"   Eber read and reread the question scrolling along the top of his slate, tapping the stylus against his teeth as he considered. His fellow xeros came in such a variety of shapes and morphologies; he'd be a liar to claim he wasn't envious.   "I'm really stuck on this one, ma. Can I just, uh, talk through it with you?"   "Sure, hon," A...