southern hemisphere? i digress! actually, that'd be wonderful ~ juno wouldn't have minded being a mother henrat type as her actual maternal feels have flown straight out the window. criminal partners actually sounds brilliant because everything you've mentioned about human slaves and such works in to how i wanted her backstory to unfold (with the mother and all). i just need to work on stamping it out and making more sense of it and then reading through the comm a second time to get more of a grasp on everything.