Halcyon Nights (Star Sojourner Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
This cargo was not for eating. It was for growing plants from seeds and animals from fertilized eggs. I wanted no trace of our presence left behind. Lisa was asleep. “Stay away from there!” I whispered, as though Tikkie could understand. But he recognized the command in my voice. He hung his tail and licked my hand. ”All right. Good dog.” He licked harder and delicately chewed a finger. I let him chew for a while, then absently pulled dangling ice balls off his fur as I read labels on the boxes. One Hundred Frozen Fertilized Red Plymouth Rock Chicken Eggs. One Hundred Frozen Fertilized Black Angus Cattle - Guaranteed Breeders. I felt sick as I pictured the czar's people growing real animals and slaughtering them for meat, instead of eating mock meat grown from cloned parts of animals. Another crate held the fertilized eggs from a champion Arabian stallion and mare. I dug for packages of food, digestalls, those tiny pink pills that make it possible to break down and digest alien forms of cellulose.
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