Chapter Fourteen
In the void, the Shadows waited.
Generation was proceeding at an acceptable pace on the planet called Earth. An early infiltration had occurred when the humans were unaware and unprepared. The process was always risky and vulnerable to failure in the beginning. Most often, the subjects would realize that one or two of their number had been replaced, and they would kill the ones who had replaced them before they had an opportunity to introduce more subjects to the traps.
But the initial invasion of Earth had succeeded before the humans had known what was happening. By then, it was too late. The quarantine they’d put in place after they understood the risk from their experiences on other planets had been doomed. The test they’d developed was effective, but the testers wer
