Chapter 10She strode up the hill behind the house, perhaps the highest point of land for miles around, a place Xsirh had difficulty getting to, his exoderm not well adapted for dry, rocky terrain. She scratched an itch on her arm.
All Kziznvxrz lived on the planet's tidal flats. None of the other species on Kziznvxrz had risen from the muck and adapted to the environments on either side, the deep blue sea and hills like the one Lydia now climbed, nor had they developed the intelligence, language, and technology that the Kzizn had.
She was grateful that Ezra had recovered something from the crash site. The damage to the A-warp core casing indicated sabotage. Among other items her father had recovered from the crash site were tissue samples from both her father and mother, kept in zero-kel
