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[ostro_goth]

Teja is having breakfast, reading some news-paper from the future with quite evident satisfaction.

Something happened, it seems, that Teja entirely approves of.


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[ostro_goth]

"Indeed," Teja says, who cannot here a difference in the pronunciation, "and if a black person and a white person have a baby together, it will be brown-ish, and look a bit of both, because the parents' genes mix in the child. But each of their children will look somewhat different, as in each, that mix is made once again."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Mummy has green in her hair, does that mean we will get it?" Fry asks.

"No, the little green streaks are dye that Mummy puts in herself." Guppy says. "Just like how tattoos aren't passed on."

[ostro_goth]

"Or scars from injuries," Teja says.

[guppy_sandhu]

"What's a scar?" Fry asks.

"If you get a big cut, the skin grows back slightly shinier." Guppy says. "That's a scar."

[ostro_goth]

"Like this," Teja says, pulling up his sleeve and showing a few lines below his elbow. "I singed myself at the forge the other day, when I did something quickly and didn't wear the apron that keeps me from being burned."

[guppy_sandhu]

Fry looks at the scar, then runs his finger down the scar.

"Don't do that, burns are sore." Guppy says.

[ostro_goth]

"This is not that fresh, and no longer hurts," Teja says.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Okay, but Fry you should ask before you touch. You know that, you don't like people to touch you." Guppy says.

"Okay." Fry doesn't touch it again. "Is a burn like I got when I touched the cake tray?"

"Yes, though that was just a little one, so it didn't scar."

[ostro_goth]

"These things are something that happen on a body during a lifetime, and do not come from their parents' genes," Teja says, going back to the original question.

[guppy_sandhu]

Fry thinks for a moment then asks.

"How come I feel things different and you and Mummy don't?"

"Because sometimes genes mix up." Guppy says. "And make new ones."

[ostro_goth]

"That's why it's useful to have two parents," Teja says.