Birthday Gift

Now that Jaklinda was coming of age by entering her Third Ternary, her parents swallowed their concerns and offered her any body modifications she wished in the shopping district, like all her friends were getting. Thrilled, Jaklinda first chose to shave down her ten lower dorsal plates, which made her mother stifle a gasp. Next Jaklinda added a fifth eye, which appeared more asymmetrical than rebellious. It wasn't until their daughter asked to completely swap out her beautiful, swirling skin for some advertisement featuring her new favorite all-biped pop group that her parents put their tentimandibles down: “Enough is enough.”