Threshold: Stories from Cradle

by Will Wight

[At this rate, there’s no end to the number of children you’ll defeat!] Dross glanced around at the faces of the others. [What? Lindon did it.]

He did in fact, do that.

[Tell him I’ve learned to mimic human speech! It’s the perfect cover story.] “Brain damage,” Ziel said. “Let’s eat.”

Not Dross catching strays.