I met Thinta near the Robotics Museum. She actually likes it in there. I didn't know her at first in her new body, but she was just the same in fact, underneath the soft gray fur, and her eyes, although without any whites now, were the usual clear green.

"It was the Dream Rooms," Thinta explained as we drank snow-in-gold at an underwater restaurant. "I always dream I'm some sort of cat thing. I wanted them to make me a cat's body, but they refused. The fur's only a compromise, really." She started to grumble about the Committee and the way they hadn't let her have a built-in purring system.

~Biting the Sun, Tanith Lee

I started this yesterday and can't put it down. It's a fun read, deliciously dystopian but wrapped in a utopian package, lush with excess but dripping with ennui. And poor Thinta, the main character's friend, just wants to be a kitty. Mean old Committee! Hergel can have wings, but heaven forbid someone purr. ~_^

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4315166/ go here for details!

To be updated as I figure more out!

Siblings: Mina, Takoda, Chatan, Ohiyesa, and Wichahpi (their names mean Eldest, Friend To Everyone, Clever Hawk, Winner, and Little Bird, respectively). Lowan is the second youngest. Mina and Wichahpi are the only girls.