(Tia gives us her impressions of the differences between her planet and Sirius which includes the details of her astral travel trips to visit it occasionally. She tells us how she can relay her images so the other Durondedunns on the base can see home though it’s a painful process Tia goes through.) 

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Russ: hi love, oh hi Tia.

Tia: hi, hi. Okay I’m going to go and get some refreshments for everybody, I will be back and I will put Huna.......I will put Bunny on.

Russ: this is a rather long one yeah.

Tia: uh-huh. But in the meantime I’m going to quickly cover whilst Bunny gets appropriately covered.

Russ: you’re going to cover?

Tia: well I’m going to fill in, got any questions?

Russ: oh I see. Just kind of following up on Kiri's stuff, how are you enjoying the way the society runs? You’ve seen our society, you’ve seen their society, you’ve seen your old society from Durondedunn.

Tia: they seem a lot more stricter in some things and a lot less stricter in others.

Russ: hmm.

Tia: morally, they’re quite different in some things. For example, on my planet it’s totally taboo for two women, it’s totally taboo for two men.

Russ: really?

Tia: doesn’t mean to say it doesn’t happen…..

Russ: right.

Tia: but it is taboo. I knew a young lady that had a secret lover and I always thought it was a guy.

Russ: oh really?

Tia: uh-huh. I astral traveled back a while ago….

Russ: uh-huh.

Tia: and it’s another girl, really surprised me.

Russ: wow.

Tia: also the fact that she has a family now is a little bit sad and the fact that I would’ve loved to have been at her joining.

Russ: uh-huh.

Tia: don’t agree with who she decided to join with but looking at him he’s grown up.

Russ: well that’s good.

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: hmm, do the other Durondedunns travel back there at all? Can they astral travel?

Tia: no.

Russ: oh.

Tia: besides they're raising their own Cubs.

Russ: oh, so you go talk to them every once in a while?

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: good, so you tell him what you’ve seen anyway?

Tia: yeah and I sometimes will plug myself into a neural scan and they’ll see pictures and hear people talking and they love it.

Russ: oh excellent.

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: that’s nice of you.

Tia: uh-huh. Actually it’s very uncomfortable.

Russ: oh really?

Tia: yeah, to do it.

Russ: well still, it’s nice you can do that.

Tia: because basically what happens is the needles are inserted underneath the skin at the weakest…..at the joints for the skull?

Russ: oohhh, that doesn’t sound like much fun.

Tia: no and it probes into the actual joints so it’s as close to the brain as possible and they normally give me medication that takes away the pain whilst they’re doing it and it makes me feel very nauseous. And they've tried all sorts of combinations of drugs so that I’m not nauseous and unfortunately some have made me worse and some have been a little better. The one they’re using is probably the best but we’re going to be next week or next month when I do my next trip, they're going to try a new one on me because they don’t want me to be nauseous. I have thrown up a few times.

Russ: oh you have?

Tia: uh-huh.

Russ: oohh, well that’s nice that you're doing that for them though.

Tia: yeah.

Russ: making them feel more at home let's say.

Tia: I also enjoy being able to plug it into the computer and do a full holo with them so that’s my payment.

Russ: oh okay cool.