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WE WERE ALL SHAKEN after that episode.
We sat in the shelter of the shed, drinking water, saying nothing, realising how close we’d come to being wiped out by an angry elephant.
Veyada’s tumble over the fence had left him with some bleeding scratches that needed attending. He was also visibly exhausted. He closed his eyes and leaned against the shed’s wall while I retrieved the first aid kit from the buggy and found disinfectant and bandages.
I had to be careful not to get Coldi blood into any open wounds. The part of the Coldi DNA that was artificially added to the base of Aghyrian DNA tended to create all kinds of trouble with DNA that didn’t have this addition. That was why I’d had to have my sperm treated—in order to make sure that the places where it replicated and latched on we
