Foster Earth by Julie E. Czerneda

Author:Julie E. Czerneda [DavidsonCompressed, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazing Stories
Published: 2018-10-27T18:00:00+00:00

By the end of Day Two, the Silent ships were through Raxenat space, and eight of the fourteen installations were inactive. That’s what they called it when the infants died, whether of the tests or some lack in their care. Their stiff little bodies were whisked to Luna for autopsy, the xenospecialists convinced they’d missed some novel sense organ within the now-shrunken heads.

Qadri didn’t believe it. The Silent possessed the wetware to see and hear, confirming what observation suggested. A throat bladder implied the ability to create sound, but could be vestigial, a remnant of the aquatic stage. In her experience, the desire to communicate—the imperative to do so—mattered most and no digging into flesh could find that. In Human terms, a tragic waste, though the adult Silent continued to exhibit no sign they observed or knew or desired to communicate at all.

Other than their “gift.” Qadri believed in that, when nothing else made sense. Every space-faring species thus far encountered had developed the means to leave their biological homes, stayed in space despite its hardships, and explored.

When they’d met another kind of life, every kind had done their utmost to communicate with it and all had achieved meaningful discourse despite physical differences.

She refused to give up now.

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