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Warlord Bahre, Bachelor Beast set, two floors below 9 News
“I asked the odd male, Chet, to bring us an item of clothing from each of the twenty-four females.” Tane sat on the edge of the very stage I’d seen Wulf leap from to claim his female. The rest stood or paced in the open space, as I did. We all understood what was at stake for the others back on The Colony. One of us had to participate in this human mate-finding mockery of a television program. One of us had to choose a female from among those they offered. “We should each try to scent the females before we meet them tomorrow. Perhaps one of us will find our mate.”
It would not be me. My enhanced cyborg sense of smell had already cataloged and dismissed every single female participant, and I hadn’t even met them yet. Still, the
