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Tell us about your daemon's favorite shape/its current shape. What do you like about it? What do you hate about it?

Sati's nearly always been something along the line of an insect or crustacean for as long as I can remember. Something shelled, tough, and small. I thought for the longest time that I was going to wind up having to live by the ocean, but she finally settled down into a form that sort of made that moot. She's a tardigrade- a waterbear, a type of animal about a millimeter long. They live in moist environments, mostly. They're all but impossible to kill. Tardigrades can survive up to 151 degrees Celsius and down to one degree warmer than absolute zero. They can survive the vacuum of space or up to six times the pressure of the water at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. They can live without water almost ten years, they can survive more than five hundred times the amount of radiation that would kill a human being, and they can survive incredibly high levels of environmental toxins. It's good to know she can stand up to pretty much anything the world throws at her. Reassuring, you know?

The down side is that my daemon is less than a millimeter long. Do you know how many looks I get from people who think I don't have a daemon at all? Sati lives in a vitredur marble lined with moss, about as long as the end of my thumb. When I have to wear the HEV suit for work she moves into a flat borosilicate glass test tube I wear around my neck under the suit. Either way, I come across as some kind of daemonless freak unless people know what to look for. And people wonder why I don't talk much…

Quotes

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong