[ WP ] Your SO is not human . If you want to stay with them , they 'll have to convert you into whatever they are .

The Kyleth were created to do hard labor in space. Their smaller and shorter state and their slow mannerisms means that they require less oxygen and food. No one expected the kyleth at one point to go on strike for human rights. Since then an entire bureaucratic structure was erected for the management of human-kyleth relations. And deep in the bowels of that bureaucracy is me. My name is Samaj, I work as a translator for the Forced Labor Compensation Office, a place where kyleth can negotiate compensation from the mining companies fior the forced labor they were forced to do and since recently, something which the kyleth call s-jjyanyet, forcing kyleth into hyperspecified adaptations in order to keep them from changing companies. The position is basically a customer service position except that of course my employer is the government. The case of Jj-Kiyitq was difficult, difficult enough that other colleagues had already said that pretty much nothing could be done anymore ( and, well, communicating with Jj-Kiyitq ( the one who carries on ) was also difficult as he had a quirky manner of communicating and seemed not to understand that internal jargon of a limited group of colleagues had no meaning outside of it ). I heard this person and immediately understood that he was desperate and in need for help and I tried to move heaven and hell to give him the accomodations he needed. In that process, I also got into contact with his best friend Jj-Qkit ( the realist ). He had a particular kind of charme and he invited me to private chats which I accepted. there are rules against personal relations and romance with clients. But no one talks about the friends of clients. I know that you are going to say that this is something which I'd only imagine. I heard it often that I can not *really* fall for him. For them, I have just 2 words: grow up. Interspecies romance, or as kyleth translates it: blue love, has been around for longer than me and even longer than Jj-Kiyitq. You do not need to fall in love with a body, love does not need to be soaked in hormones and by that very nature ephermeral, love can emerge from interactions, from talking, from the other's mind, humour and character and that only makes it deeper. I know that you do not agree with my plans, and this is why I only tell you now. The case of Jj-Kiyitq has ended yesterday, and after it did, I handed in my notice. I have signed up with Syntic, the company under which's contract Jj-Qkit is, I am being transformed on a genetic level to a kyleth at the time this letter reaches you ( depending on just how bad the postal service is right now, it might reach you even later ). On 2057-04-16, I will be sent out to the same station Jj-Qkit works in. I know that you do not understand it, I know that you will think that I am crazy, and I can not really do a lot to change this. What I can tell you however is that we will stream our wedding to you.
