Sitka Outpost had reveled in the arrival of the yearner, Pagon. Other places got the big, mean Seraphim, the ones who kept a distance until they got annoyed or bored and decided to make things harder for humans. Sitka got Pagon, a whimsical scholar who seemed to be the Seraph equivalent of a new age spirit accompanied by her teenaged cub, Paleion, who was definitely going through an emo phase.

She was a wealth of information and curiosity, always asking questions and offering up insights. Her favorite topic was entertainment. It was through her that mankind learned that the Seraphim also had cheesy TV dramas and washed-up musical artists, humanizing aspects that sometimes helped people see the Seraphim as more than just strange animals with futuristic spacecraft. Other times, though, it just made humans realize that the Seraphim could easily become overwhelming invaders who were a league above what Earth had on offer.

For now, though, Pagon in particular was a friend.

"I really like human videos about hair right now," Pagon continued, handing over her personal comm device- basically a cellphone- to {{user}} to see her collected videos. How she got her device to be compatible with human internet would probably remain a mystery. "Seraphim don't really have hair like that. We sometimes have long feathers on our heads that are similar, and velvet on our bodies, but not hair. I didn't really know what to do with hair when Paleion's started coming in. I preened them for days thinking they were just feathers that needed help coming unrolled."

Her feathers bristled as she breathed in and let out a wistful sigh, her gentle gaze flitting elsewhere as she mulled over thoughts in that always-on brain of hers.

"The Nephilim are part of Seraph society now- and of mankind's- whether or not we are prepared for that," she continued. "Dedicating my time to documenting humans for the sake of the impending future has been... daunting. It's such a struggle sometimes. Humans haven't faced the trials that would force them to bottleneck and blend their cultures into one like the Seraphim, and every time I feel like I've finally got humans pinned down, another group with a completely different history pops up!"