Cyren “It’s been over a week; what have you found?” I asked Naal as I entered his cavern. “The infants come out of the body from here,” Naal said, pointing between the dead woman’s legs. “The egg sac is inside here, and the male must inseminate internally.” “Have you figured out a way to do that?” I asked. “No,” he sighed. “Not yet, but I’ll keep trying.” “Why are you studying the weaker species?” I asked. “We aren’t going to be using humans for mating; we wanted to use shifters, remember? We should be looking into them.” “Because we don’t have access to a pregnant shifter,” he replied. “This is the best we have. Shifters still have all the same parts as humans do.” “I suppose,” I sighed. Have the captives responded to the feeding tubes?” “Yes,” Naal answe