Sea of Grass

[Domino]

"It's actually not that uncommon, about half us girls have them though none of the guys do." This... actually didn't feel half bad, she just had to actually let her guard down for once and relax into it. Well as far as that ever happened. "You probably only cam across them when a headdress was covering their ears or where they looked to be a part of one, I once knew a girl who painted hers to looked like hammered copper so they blended in with the studs on her outfit."
[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Domino"]

Still she rubbed, still she massaged, further pondering over the variances in the Twilek genome. "I know you probably could care less about Twi'lek history on Ryloth... but it still intrigues me. Do you know when the variances in ear shape began? That's something I would certainly love to talk about." Gently her fingers massaged into the thicker roots of the lekku, slowly trailing their way down.

"I just don't know what makes you so alluring... and yet, you are."

 

[Domino]

Right, that was enough of that. "Food's about done I think." Domino said as she stood. She'd tried, it's just that feeling another's hands on her had been bringing back memories. And as good as Circe may have been at massages, you treated lekku different from a back or shoulders.

Leading the way over to the dining area, Domino began to answer her guest's last question. "As far as I'm aware it even pre-dates our time on Ryloth." The food was laid out for them along with a glass of water for her and some chilled wine for Circe. There was also an embarrassingly large pile of notebooks, texts, and diagrams sprawled across the table where things had spilled over from her work area which Domino started clearing off as she continued. "Most people call it our home-planet, which it is now, but there's little anthropological evidence to support we evolved there. No close cousins or ancestral bones. So unless we just popped into existence there, we immigrated at some point." Finally stacking the last book and with most of the rest of the stuff shuffled out of the way, Domino waved Circe to a seat and took her own.
[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Domino"]

"I have heard rumors in my time..." She stroked her chin in curiosity. "Rumors that perhaps the Twi'leks were engineered as a part of some ancient galactic seeding program. As to what goals the program had in mind, I do not know - only that a fragment from an ancient civilization was discovered. The sole holoimage is heavily corrupted, but it appears to show a cave painting of a Twi'lek-like individual bowing to a large cube of some sort." She took a sip of her drink before leaning back in the chair.

"Forbidden lore does have a large degree of benefits, when enough study has been put into it."

 

[Domino]

"All that means to me is that some ancient explorers took a picture of a recording of idol or tech worship." Domino was a scientist, she wanted hard evidence. A corrupted picture of a cave painting just meant that someone thousands of years ago was drawing crude pictures. "Anything after that is wild speculation or, as you've said, rumors." It wasn't that she was trying to shut down Circe's speculation, she was just going to act as a foil to keep things grounded. And she may have found the notion of her people being bio-engineered a bit insulting. Were people really so eager to 'dehumanize' Twi'leks that they'd jump to that conclusion?
[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

[member="Domino"]

"My apologies if you took that as an offensive comment - it was hardly meant as such. The Twi'lek species having no knowledge of its original homeworld, however, coupled with the lack of a clear direction to indicate potential origin worlds, could suspect a more unusual origin. Perhaps your exquisite beauty was sculpted by the ancients we know as the Celestials?" Her knowledge on the subject was minimal as she was scarcely a protege of archaeology - all she knew was that Domino was a most intriguing individual.

"Certainly evolution did not just happen to create such beautiful people."

 

[Domino]

"That's kinda how evolution works doesn't it?" Domino asked after waving away Circie's apology, it was nothing. "I mean, once your technology reaches a certain point, all somebody has a basis of choosing a mate is how they look right? Personality and intelligence still matters, but survivability and raw strength take a back-seat. Society starts valuing beauty more as evidenced by beauty magazines and celebrities. Besides, humans don't know their home world either, though I guess some of them are rather cute."
[member="Enigma"]

 

[Onrai]

Some humans were cute - she wondered if [member="Domino"] viewed her in such a way. She was quite the obsessive person - always needing sempai to notice her. "But let's not forget what it's created, though... Many people around the galaxy have a less than sensible understanding of culture, but even then, a lovely, luscious Twi'lek like yourself is instantly recognizable, likely as some emissary of whatever the locals believe to be a goddess of beauty and love."

The alien appearance of the Twees was admittedly quite gorgeous.