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“So when you Grasped in here, the Hivemind failed, and—”
“No,” he said, shaking his head. “Thankfully I can explain this to you, Engineer, without having to explain to Tschenkar as I would to a child.”
I looked over my shoulder, worried Tschenkar had suddenly come up behind us and would overhear. When I didn’t see him, I laughed.
Kantus smiled. “We fired up our Grasp drive, and the moment we joined our former point in spacetime to Eden’s point in spacetime, the Hivemind failed. It failed before we even fired our regular engines. Do you understand, Engineer?”
I nodded, though I was getting tired. These four little alien babies growing in me apparently meant I needed to sleep something like 15 hours per day. “So the Hivemind is shutting off everywhere, but the failure is propagating at the speed of light across the galaxy? Each time someone Grasps to here…”
He grinned. “You’re much smarter than your scions, human.”
“Did you, um, do anything to help prevent the propagation?”
Kantus had seemed pretty full of himself until this point. He’d been confident with everything, and he seemed to think that his pack was superior to Thuliak’s and Tschenkar’s, and that their prejudice against his pack was completely unfounded. Now though he hung his head, and even from his alien expression, I could tell he felt ashamed.
“What’s wrong, Sweetheart?” Cleopatra said, suddenly at his side and nuzzling her cheek up against his big bicep.
“I wish I could say I was completely lost in the breeding frenzy, that what you say had never occurred to me.”
“I don’t follow,” I said.
“I thought of these things. The Hivemind was gone. I knew I should tell Tharkur to wait. To make a plan before rushing to the surface. We arrived just after Tschenkar’s gambit. The path had been cleared, and our window of time was short. This is how I justified it after the fact, but in that moment, I wanted only virgin pussy. I thought with my cock, and my brain took the backseat.”
He reached down between Midwife’s legs and squeezed, pressing his finger right over where he knew it would feel most good to her. She closed her eyes and shuddered, a big smile filling her face.
“Perhaps Thuliak and Tschenkar are right,” Kantus said. “We’ve evolved too far toward fucking. It blinded us.”
I sighed. “At least you’e here, right? Maybe if you had waited you couldn’t have made it down at all?”
“I found her,” he said, squeezing her ass, “that’s all that matters to me. I’ll admit this, even though I know it makes me weak.”
Cleopatra stood on her tippy toes and licked one of his nipples. “You’re not weak. You’re my big, bad Khetar, and I’m your wet little Fuckt—”
I plugged my ears again. Kantus couldn’t really be blamed, nor could any Khetar on theInseminator. They’d done what they could in a heated moment. My first instinct was that they should have tried to dosomethingto prevent the Hivemind failure to spread faster, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized it was impossible to prevent.
In a perfect galaxy, Thuliak would simply tell every single packship in the galaxy “Stop using your Grasp Drives!” The failure of the Hivemind was spreading away from Eden at the speed of light, which is exactly how fast any message Thuliak sent would get out. The warning would always come too late.
Still, the galaxy was hundreds of thousands of lightyears across, so it would take eons for the Hivemind to fail everywhere. The problem—of course—was the Grasp drives. Each time a packship used its Grasp Drive, there was a chance they’d pull whatever signal killed the Hivemind into their local area of spacetime. Once that happened, it was like a plague spreading through the galaxy, but instead of spreading out from one point—Eden—it would spread out from two points. Once two points in the galaxy were infected, the likelihood of a third point becoming infected increased. I’d need an actual computer—or at least pen and paper—and a lot more information about how many packships were out there and how often they typically Grasped, but my guess was that the Hivemind would fail almost everywhere within a century or so. TheInseminatorhad already created a second point in spacetime where the Hivemind’s failure was spreading from. Each ship that wanted to come see the “Virgin Planet” would create a new source of contagion.
“Kantus,” I said, unplugging my ears.
“Yes?” he asked.
“Can you really fight when you’re all spread out like that? Your reaction time isn’t so great.”
“The moment I spot anything, I’ll bring my bodies back here. They’re currently at the edge of the functional perimeter, but a few hundred meters closer and I’ll be delayed only by a few milliseconds. I can be fully functional in under thirty seconds.”
Cleopatra reached down and squeezed his rock-hard shaft. “You’re already fully functional for me, Baby.”
He grinned. “Unfortunately,” he said, “it doesn’t feel as good as it could, because—”
Midwife opened her mouth wide and swallowed his cock up, her cheeks going all the way in as she sucked for all she was worth.
I used the opportunity to put a blanket over my head, plug my ears, and doze off to try to get some of my fifteen hours of sleep in.
* * *
I wokeup to an urgent tugging on my arm.
