Bitter Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
It simply was, and was driven by the imperatives basic to survival in what it instinctively knew was a hostile environment. By its own definition, any environment in which it did not have predatory dominance was hostile. It had traveled a long way from its point of origin, the strange metal creche where it had grown from the mindless form, had molted, and finally become. It had killed all the humans that had destroyed its birth place, using the knowledge it had absorbed from its most recent victim, the soldier that had once been Ryadavoy Pavel Ivanovich Sleptsev. Its mimicry had initially been imperfect, as the thing was still young and inexperienced. But with every moment it had traveled from the flaming pyre it had left behind, it improved, matured. The thing was aware that others of its kind had survived the deadly flames. Some had left the creche — the facility, it corrected itself — early, soon after becoming. A few had left right after they had molted, assuming their adult physical form, but before the higher cognitive processes had been awakened by latent genetic triggers.
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