The Cradle by Cobalt- Blue

Author:Cobalt- Blue [Blue, Cobalt-]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: RuneSpinner Studios
Published: 2014-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

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It had been a long month. Although she had immensely enjoyed the time with Leighanne as her guest, Miranda would be both sad and glad to see her return to her own home. George and the children had left their quarters for their home in Miami about a week after they arrived. There was really nothing they could do for Corey in the interim before he came out of the chamber and George did have a business to run.

Miranda was glad to see that Leighanne and D'an'a were bonding in a way she had not expected. Her child seemed to find a third mother in the form of Leighanne and the two would sit and talk quietly for hours. Miranda got the feeling that perhaps D'an'a was asking her old friend for advice that might have been embarrassing to inquire of either her or Jord'n. She was very aware of what D'an'a considered to be her shameful secret- that she had not yet engaged in any of the games of pin-to-the-bottom with her age-mates; and she knew why.

She'd heard several of the nasty thoughts among some of the Shan. D'an'a's not true Shan; her transhuman parents were the reason she was 'avad'a- a hermaphrodite. They seemed to forget that the condition was at least common enough to have a word for it in their language. She also knew that D'an'a had heard the same thoughts. She'd chosen not to get involved with people who only were willing to play on a dare or who were looking for some kind of bragging rights because of her dad. It was sobering to realize that, even though she and Adam had been accepted by their podmates' people, even the Shan could hold prejudices.

There was little she or any of her podmates could do to help their child through this difficult time. They were there to support her, to help her when she needed it, but they knew she really had to find her own currents to follow. It seemed that Leighanne was a beacon for the young defender, someone D'an'a could turn to and ask those difficult questions. D'an'a, too, was a source of strength for Leighanne. She knew of her old friend's desire for another child, a daughter and D'an'a was filling a surrogate role for her in that way for a while.

Miranda was, of course, also busy with the business of helping run the colony. Mother had speculated on what kind of technology the UN may have either developed or recovered from the several downed Meirrian spacecraft they'd managed to get their hands on over the last few decades. She suggested that they may have somehow gotten their hands on the psi-shield technology from some of the equipment that they'd recovered when they killed Sundancer.

From what she understood, the former Gemcorpsman had been stripped of his status and his powers for the crime of being a replicant. It seemed the Meirrians were very prejudiced against their genetic creations, something she was afraid would eventually bring them into conflict with the Shan.

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