Analog Sff, September 2010
Analog Sff, September 2010
“LevineExtreme circumstances can require radical departures from even the most deeply rooted “traditons. . . ."A spasm of pain made Ksho drop her forelimb-brush.Xinecotic-ki Ksho always ached all over, from her mandibles to the tips of her third pair of limbs. Pain and hunger were the natural states of a Shacuthi juvenile—pain from constant rapid growth and hunger for the vast quantities of food she needed to sustain that growth—but this latest spasm was the bone-deep ache that meant her skin wa...s getting to be too small. She had already molted seven times and knew this feeling well, but this next molt would be her last as a juvenile. After this molt she would pupate for three months, her ugly juvenile body replaced by a gleaming adult.She was thrilled. She was terrified.But for now, she had a job to do.Ksho bent down and scrabbled with clumsy, weak two-fingered hands for the brush on the rough cloth of the floor, wishing she had an adult's hands—gleaming three-fingered structures of chitin and bone, capable of powerful grasp and fine manipulation.MoreLess
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