I wrote elsewhere about the re-entry into Normal life.
Most of us never lived on Planet Normal. We were raised on Manipulo, a distant planet that has become so unstable, that it is no longer viable to sustain meaningful life.
So our planet inhabitable, we were forced to come to this planet. Planet Normal.
We were among the lucky ones to get out when we could. We know there are others still there, but there are other transports waiting for them, when they are ready to come too.
We are not Normals ourselves, we look like them, sound like them, walk, eat and talk like them. Our job here on Planet Normal is not to over-run, dominate or invade, our role here is to join the population, to blend in and to learn from the inhabitants here.
In exchange, we have much to teach Normals, should they wish to learn.
We are more psychologically astute, we have finely tuned instincts. Our powers of perception are so great as to be able to tell a person's mood by the way they walk along a hall way, or the way a door is opened. We pick up every subtlety, every nuance. We are experts in making others feel at ease, at home and calm. We can diffuse a situation in seconds. we can handle almost ANYTHING thrown at us, metaphorically or even physically. We bounce back.
There is much that we too can teach Normals, if they ever need us to, but what they have to show us is wondrous, it's unfamiliar, but ultimately it will mean that we too have a long, happier and healthier life than we would have ever had on Manipulo.
