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                 (Tia describes her times
                            hunting hologram Durondedunn deer on the
                            base to get the feel of being back home. She
                            also tells us how the real thing back home
                            looks and what they do with it once they
                            kill it.)
 
 
 John: what are
                                          you hunting for?
 
 Tia: oh sorry, I was going to
                                          talk to Nicole. I’m hunting
                                          holographic deer with nasty,
                                          pointed antlers. Well actually
                                          it has two single antlers and
                                          they’re about this long.
 
 Russ: those aren’t deer.
 
 John: oh yeah, it’s a species
                                          of deer.
 
 Tia: it’s a Durondedunn
                                          species.
 
 Russ: we call them antelopes.
 
 Tia: it’s a Durondedunn
                                          species.
 
 John: yeah, not with horns
                                          that long.
 
 Tia: it is on my home planet.
 
 Russ: oh, so they’re
                                          Durondedunn antelopes.
 
 John: and how do you hunt
                                          them? Do you mind me
                                          interjecting here? How do you
                                          hunt them? What method do you
                                          use to….
 
 Tia: just my bare hands and my
                                          speed and my skill and my
                                          brain.
 
 John: and you kill them?
 
 Tia: well they’re holograms
                                          actually but on my home planet
                                          yes, you’d kill them by
                                          breaking the neck.
 
 John: okay, do you ingest the
                                          meat?
 
 Tia: yes, uh-huh, that’s the
                                          reason why we hunt them.
 
 John: and it’s very good
                                          eating?
 
 Tia: oh, very good eating,
                                          it’s beautiful.
 
 John: you utilize the hide and
                                          the horns and all of the meat?
 
 Tia: yes, everything is used
                                          on my planet. Everything from
                                          the intestinal tract to the
                                          brain, every part is used. The
                                          bones are used to ground down
                                          to make powder for various
                                          ceremonies….
 
 John: okay now as far as the
                                          intestinal tract….
 
 Tia: uh-huh.
 
 John: do you use that to make
                                          sausage?
 
 Tia: no, we use that as
                                          fertilizer. The lining of the
                                          intestine, yes that would be
                                          used to make baggies.......sausages.
 
 John: baggies is sausages, is
                                          it Sirian?
 
 Tia: well that’s what the
                                          translation from Durondedunn
                                          to English would be, would be
                                          baggies.
 
 John: okay but the baggies are
                                          full of meat….
 
 Tia: yes, uh-huh.
 
 John: is that correct?
 
 Tia: full of meat, yes.
 
 John: thank you.
 
 
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