Children of a Different Sky by Jane Yolen

Author:Jane Yolen [Alexander, edited by Alma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kos Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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They put D78 in the truck with all the others rounded up that morning and Garcia watches as it drives off, kicking up dust from the grooves worn in the ground. The covered vehicle bounces back and forth between just two destinations all day, every day: base camp and the holding facility. After that, Garcia has no idea what happens to the creatures.

“Chow?” Wainwright thumbs at the kitchen tent.

“In a couple,” says Garcia. “Gonna clear my head.”

The lieutenant gives him a narrow-eyed look. “You were having quite a chat with it on the way in here.”

Garcia shrugs. Before the Incident being in the field was different: they ran in units of twelve or fifteen, fanning out every morning to mark the grids as cleared and made maps where holes in the air appeared. It was more about surveillance. If they ran into a fey they turned it right around and marched it back to the hole. But D78 hadn’t given them any trouble, and they hadn’t even tried to find it a hole to go back through.

Back home in Tennessee, Garcia grew up with a rifle in his hands, hunting in the woods for the family supper with his redbone coonhound. Once grown he never thought about doing anything other than soldiering—it’s what the men in the family did. But the Peacekeepers didn’t feel like soldiering. Their enemy didn’t shoot back, rarely even put up a fight. Mostly the creatures were running away from something, and happened to run into you. Now apparently the response was to cart them off to a holding facility and regular EMP pulses until … until…

Until what? Garcia wonders.

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