Skill Shuffle

Twilight was tired after a long day of work so she went to her favorite restaurant as she didn’t feel like cooking. She sat down and ordered her food. Afterwards she got up to the bathroom to wash her hands then she sat back down at her booth and was waiting on her order to arrive. She heard two Xeros talking in the booth behind her. “Did you take the ARC Survey yet?” One said. The second one “ No. What are they asking this time?” “ What mutations would you add or subtract from yo...

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...