Story [Highlander] Child of the Universe * DDC 2013 * COMPLETE

Awww I love the introspection! It can't be easy for any of them Can Immortals reproduce?

 

No, Immortal can't have childreen. All they can do is adopt.

 

Thanks Mira! They will be meeting again.

As for Ben's stance in the matter, i think his is healthier because he's not afraid to allow himself to love even knowing he'll end up loosing the other person. Then again, he's a LOT older than Claire.

 

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Wait a second...you mean she is immortal AND she can eat everything and anything without gaining an ounce?! That just doesn't seem fair. Please tell me that she at least suffers from eternal teenage acne.





Nice update!

 

Mira_Jade - Yeah, i skimmed over the nineteenth century because although it is historically significant, it's not so much for Claire's story. It's just more of the same. Now in the twentieth century everything changes -the world and Claire's life. There is a lot to cover.


Jedi_Lover - Well, immortals don't get infections so ... no.

 

Claire is soooo lucky. She can eat cheesecake and burgers and home fries/steak fries, fried chicken, chocolate, and never gain a pound. That's just too marvelous for words, foodie that I am. Hazel, you are giving us such great glimpses of history. Just enough detail but with Claire's unique perspective.

 

Seriously! I second all of this

 

Okay, actually what I meant is something along these lines: 'I can catch a cold, I just can't die from it' (Duncan MacLoud)

 

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Excellent post hitting technical breakthroughs of the early 20th century. That last line: how true that is.

 

Nice! When my sons talk to me I feel like I have lived for centuries. "Mom, do you mean when you were a little kid there were no personal computers, or microwaves, or iPods, or DVR players?!"

I tell them, "That's right! We had a thing called a typewriter, we used an oven to reheat leftovers, we listen to music from a heavy boom box we carried on our shoulder and if we missed a TV program we had to wait for it to rerun later that summer between network seasons!"

Stang! I don't know how I survived my childhood.

Nice update!

 

Jedi_:Lover

Great update, Hazel! Short but sweet Doesn'tbode well for the next ...

 

Thanks Nat! And yes, the next entry will not be a joyful one, what with the war and all.

 

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Amazing update. Glad Claire got to help those she could. She's not as literally devastated by horrible things it seems. I.e., she's strong enough to face them without running away. Sad there's usually only one way to get that way.

 

The War to End All Wars...yeah right. Right after this is the Spanish Flu epidemic. Now I am hearing that the estimated deaths could have went as high as 100 Million. That was not a good time to be alive. Nice update.

 

I think most of all, I wish it had been the ultimate culmination of human violence - as we would all find out in less than thirty years time, it was just the beginning.

I love this line! And I like seeing Claire's personal growth.

 

Thanks girls! I wasn't very inspired for that entry and the next few ones will be more along these lines. As I research it I'm finding the first half of the twentieth century to be really depressing history wise, but I fell I need robcover it because it is a growing period for Claire.

Also, I need to take a week off of so the next entry will be in the week next to this one.

 

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I'm sure the worst is over...I mean two major tragedies in a decade...what else could possibly happen? Oh yeah, the great depression and WWII.

I'll tell you the people who lived in the early 1900's must have thought it was the end of days.

My Mom once told me her brother would come home during the depression with donated bread from local bakeries. My grandmother thought he might be stealing so she went to the baker to make sure. The baker said, "I gave him the bread. I felt so sorry for him. He told me how his father died of the Spanish Flu." The trouble was my grandfather was alive and well. My uncle was a bit of a flimflam man.

Nice update.

 

Wow, Claire has seen too much I hope that she can find joy again, and I know she'll appreciate even the teensy good, "ordinary" moments.

 

Oops, double post.