I'm glad you like the opening thus far! This was my first book that I actually finished, back when I was still in high school. I still remember designing all my species of Nearth, something I'd never done in a book before! I do need to delve deeper into Trouse being raised by pigs, I've just been putting it off for awhile now. I think the pigs would be able to talk using voice boxes designed by the glishen, but I've never added that into the story! I think now is a good time to explain that in the story. At the beginning, I still wasn't sure what tense I wanted to write in, so I've missed the parts where the tenses change in my editing process again and again! I'll reread the opening chapter much more carefully this time. But thank you for leaving a comment! I appreciate all the helpful tips. I hope you enjoy the book as you read onwards, and tell me any places where I've messed up! I do know that some areas of the book are lacking, as I wasn't as skilled at writing back then (or at least, my writing style has changed since i wrote this trio of shorter books in one).

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one! And thank you. I hope my comments help out a bit too, in their own way!