Dark Haven Found (The Children Of The Gods Paranormal Romance Book 49) by I. T. Lucas

Author:I. T. Lucas [Lucas, I. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Kian

Kian pressed the remote to pause the recording. “So, what do you think?”

Onegus crossed his arms over his chest. “There must be more of them. But since Andrew verified that what Emmett said was true, we can safely assume that his community is still relatively small. Although given that their fertility rate seems to be better than ours, they might have produced a small army of hybrids by now. Also, Emmett left before any of the hybrid females conceived. It’s possible that unions between hybrids produced long-lived children as well.”

“They might be too closely related,” Kian said. “With only three pure-blooded females and seventeen pure-blooded males, their genetic variation is too small to allow for interbreeding. If I were their leader, I would prefer for the males to father as many children as possible with humans, and I would be wary of the hybrids producing children between them.”

Turner shook his head. “There are seventeen pure-blooded males who we can assume are not related to each other. The children they produce with humans are not even cousins and can safely mate. The question is whether the children of two hybrids are born long-lived. If they are like us, then the answer is no. The child of two immortals is not born immortal, and she or he still needs to be induced to transition into immortality. And since they either don’t know how to do it or can’t, we can assume that if they have children, they are born human and given away to orphanages like Mey and Jin were.”

Onegus huffed out a breath. “If they keep a large harem of human females, they can produce scores of children. It’s what Navuh does, just in reverse. The pure-blooded Kra-ell males are the equivalent of the gods, and they contribute the long-lived genes to the hybrids, not the females, who don’t take human lovers. I wonder how many hybrid children they've had since Emmett left the community.”

“We can estimate it.” Turner looked at Kian. “Ask him how many hybrid males were born while he was still there. Emmett thinks that the pure-bloods arrived in the early 1900s, and he left toward the end of the century. That’s about eighty years. Based on how many were born during that time, and provided that they kept about the same number of human females in their compound, it should be easy to extrapolate how many they have today.”

“That still doesn’t answer the question of whether there are more communities of them.” Onegus uncrossed his arms and braced his elbows on the conference table. “It’s crucial that we find out. They might not be a problem now or even in a hundred years, but if they keep producing hybrids who can live up to a millennium, that could become a problem even if they never figure out how to activate their Dormants.”

It was a chilling thought. Eventually, they could overrun the planet even without more of them arriving.

Kian patted the small box of cigarillos he’d slipped into his pocket before the meeting.

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