StarCraft: Evolution by Zahn Timothy

Author:Zahn, Timothy [Zahn, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780425284735
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

Among its other duties, the implant in Tanya’s brain was supposed to help smooth out her emotions. Lowering the peaks, as it were, and raising the valleys.

It wasn’t doing that job very well today.

There was also a whole pharmacy of drugs available for her to take, everything from alcohol to hab to secret military cocktails that didn’t even have official names. Those also promised to get her on an even keel and keep her there.

She had no interest in touching any of them.

Besides, even if she wanted to, she wouldn’t know which class of drug to take. Her emotions were running a full hill-hugger ride from white-hot fury at being lied to straight down to a black depression at being lied to and back up to fury again.

The only constant in her mood was the fact that she’d been lied to.

How could Ulavu do that to her?

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught someone approaching. She tensed—

But it was only Erin. “Can I talk to you a minute?” the other woman asked, her forehead wrinkled in thought.

Tanya’s first instinct was to say no. Her heart and soul were aching, and all she wanted was to curl up within herself—alone—until the ache went away.

But Erin’s expression wasn’t that of a woman who just felt like a casual chat. It was something important. Maybe even important enough to provide some mental distraction. “Sure,” Tanya said, suppressing a sigh. “What’s up?”

“It’s this report,” Erin said, pulling out her datapad and dropping into the next seat. Sometime in the past couple of hours, she’d taken off her armor, probably with Whist’s help, and looked a lot fresher and more comfortable than Tanya currently felt. “This transcription of Emperor Valerian’s conversation with Overqueen Zagara. Did you read it?”

“Not yet,” Tanya said. “Is there a problem?”

“I don’t know,” Erin said, calling up a section of the report and handing her datapad to Tanya. “Zagara claims that these adostra things—they’re supposedly what we saw in the pods—can’t go rogue and crazy and attack people like the psyolisks did.”

“People claim all sorts of things are impossible,” Tanya said, skimming the section. “Someone once told me friends don’t lie to each other.”

Erin blinked. “Ah…my point is that I got to thinking about the psyolisks and what we saw in the pods. You’ve studied zerg anatomy, right?”

“I’ve looked inside a few,” Tanya said. Actually, she’d seen way more than her fair share of zerg guts during her training. Marines only needed to know where the weakest part of a zerg’s exterior was; she needed to know which of their innards would burn best. “There wasn’t a lot left to see after Dizz finished with the pods, if that’s where you’re going.”

“I know that,” Erin said. “And Zagara says that the adostra use xel’naga essence rather than zerg varieties, so their ontogeny might be different from the normal spawning-pool version of—”

“Their what?”

“Their ontogeny,” Erin repeated. “Their life cycle from fertilization to full adult. Zerg normally don’t go through a

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