@@@@@?What do you mean?? His eyes swept across 602
@@@@@?What do you mean?? His eyes
swept across the buildings and the road, not pausing on the playing family
I caught his chin and pointed his face in the right directionHe didn't so much as flinch at my
unexpected touch, and that gave me a strange jolt of warmth in the pit of my stomach
?What am I looking at??
?The only hope for survival I've ever seen for a host species
?Where?? he demanded, bewildered
I was aware of Ian close behind us now, listening silently
?See?? I pointed at the laughing mother?See how she loves her human child??
At that moment, the woman snatched her son from the swing and squeezed him in a tight
embrace, covering his face with kissesHe cooed and flailed?just a babyNot the miniature
adult he would have been if he carried one of my kind?The baby ishuman? How? Why? For how long??
I shrugged?I've never seen this before?I don't knowShe has not given him up for a hostI
can't imagine that she would be? forcedMotherhood is all but worshipped among my kindIf
she is unwilling?? I shook my head?I have no idea how that will be handledThis doesn't
happen elsewhereThe emotions of these bodies are so much stronger than logic
I glanced up at Jared and IanThey were both staring openmouthed at the interspecies family in
the park
?No,? I murmured to myself?No one would force the parents if they wanted the childAnd
justlook at them
The father had his arms around both the mother and the child
