Twelve Days 6/12 (G)
Title: welve Days
Fandom: GA
Rating G
Characters: eyla and other Athosians
Summary: welve stories of the Athosians based on the Twelve Days of Christmas
Disclaimer: ot mine
From as soon as he was able, which he thinks was about five years old, Wex had been in charge of the small flock of geese. They weren’t actually geese, the Athosian word for them was Bena but when Major Sheppard first saw them he told Wex that they looked like an Earth bird called a goose, only smaller. Wex decided that he liked that name better, much to his father’s annoyance and so now all the Athosian children called the birds geese.
He had names for all of the geese, which worried his mother. She kept saying that he shouldn’t be too attached to them, but wouldn’t say exactly why. Still, he was responsible for them and he thought that they deserved names.
Each morning Wex would check their enclosure and collect the eggs, distributing them amongst the families who would either cook them for meals or save them for baking. A small number were sometimes kept aside for trading on other planets, but not very often. Because the birds were small, they could easily be placed in cages and transported through the gate, so most groups they met had their own. However sometimes they had to be left behind when the Wraith came and there was no time to take anything and those groups always wanted to trade for some eggs.
Wex knew that he was getting to the age when he would start doing other work and the birds would be given to a younger child to look after. As he brushed his hand across the tail feathers of one of them, he wondered if that was why his mother didn’t want him to name them. But all that meant was that he would have to teach the next child their names.
Seven Swans A'Swimming
Fandom: GA
Rating G
Characters: eyla and other Athosians
Summary: welve stories of the Athosians based on the Twelve Days of Christmas
Disclaimer: ot mine
From as soon as he was able, which he thinks was about five years old, Wex had been in charge of the small flock of geese. They weren’t actually geese, the Athosian word for them was Bena but when Major Sheppard first saw them he told Wex that they looked like an Earth bird called a goose, only smaller. Wex decided that he liked that name better, much to his father’s annoyance and so now all the Athosian children called the birds geese.
He had names for all of the geese, which worried his mother. She kept saying that he shouldn’t be too attached to them, but wouldn’t say exactly why. Still, he was responsible for them and he thought that they deserved names.
Each morning Wex would check their enclosure and collect the eggs, distributing them amongst the families who would either cook them for meals or save them for baking. A small number were sometimes kept aside for trading on other planets, but not very often. Because the birds were small, they could easily be placed in cages and transported through the gate, so most groups they met had their own. However sometimes they had to be left behind when the Wraith came and there was no time to take anything and those groups always wanted to trade for some eggs.
Wex knew that he was getting to the age when he would start doing other work and the birds would be given to a younger child to look after. As he brushed his hand across the tail feathers of one of them, he wondered if that was why his mother didn’t want him to name them. But all that meant was that he would have to teach the next child their names.
Seven Swans A'Swimming