Danielle is coming to the Caliban Academy hunting competition this week as Rudy and his teammates play their archrival Domain High School. She, George and Francis will sit in the stands with Dad, Kell, Coney and Elanor. (Gran won’t be there; as the team’s conditioning coach her work is done by the time the competition starts.)
Danielle grew up with the human version of Gran as her mother, who (like her rabbit counterpart) had been a star athlete in her youth. Danielle never really took to sports for that reason, although she was intrigued by the emphasis on numbers. As a human child she mainly followed baseball just to keep up with batting averages, ERAs, etc. The actual games bored her.
Once here and transformed into a rabbit, she discovered the hunting competitions through Rudy. Hunting has a similar focus on numbers since the winner is determined through the size, weight and degree of difficulty of the prey. Danielle enjoys doing all that calculating in her head.
BTW, I’d like to clarify something about the town of Domain. Some of my human friends (Yes, I regard you as friends!) seem to think Domain is a big city, and others even believe it’s name of this planet...or universe! No, Domain is simply a small suburban bedroom community about ten to fifteen miles away from a big city. It’s part of a major metropolitan area, but it’s not significant in and of itself.
Except...that it’s home.
