The Spawning by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor [O'Connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-07-25T16:51:12+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Khan had a bad feeling even as the fire began inside of him that he wasn’t far enough, the barricade they had built outside the gates of the compound was not stout enough, and the reinforcements they had built along the sea wall were not strong enough to keep him away from Miranda.

They should’ve built the containment lodges.

They hadn’t seen the need for them when they’d built the village, though. Even if it was true and they could trust that the Sheloni were no longer a threat, they had had no women and it seemed unlikely they would. What need did they have for containment lodges to protect non-existent women from men maddened with the need to breed them during the spawning cycle?—and there had been no time for it after the trader had brought the flower women, as Adar had dubbed them and they had all begun to think of them.

It had seemed appropriate if not particularly flattering to the tiny, spindly

creatures with their strange white/pink skin, curiously colorful pale hair, and even more exotically colored eyes.

And they didn’t just appear to be as fragile and easily crushed as the petals of a flower, either. The hot sun wilted and burned them. The wind and sea chafed their delicate skin and, as willingly as many of them labored, they had neither the strength nor the stamina nor any sort of skills that he’d been able to determine to survive the harsh environment of this world.

He’d spent a good deal of time trying to imagine the world they must have come from, but it defeated his imagination. Mayhap, like the Sheloni, their race had advanced to such a weakened state? Mayhap they had reached a point where they relied so heavily upon the technology they had devised that they’d no longer seen the need for physical strength and stamina?

Or mayhap they had bred weakness into their race without awareness of it

because of their technology?

And, mayhap, the Hirachi were more fortunate than they had realized, he thought wryly?

When the Sheloni had helped bring about the destruction of the great civilization they had built for themselves and pitched them backward to a place where they had little or no technology to rely upon, mayhap it had saved them from a similar fate? When they were forced to use their wits, their physical and personal strengths to survive. When nature once again determined their individual suitability for survival and technology could not be relied upon any longer to nurture the weak and unsuitable, it had been harsh.

In many ways, it had been nearly unbearable, and yet the physically and mentally inferior had not lived to breed and pass on their weaknesses. The defective did not survive long enough to burden their society or pass on their weaknesses to a new generation, no matter how strenuously those who cared for them struggled to preserve their lives.

And they had never been able to bring themselves to cease to try even when their THE SPAWNING

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