“You cut your hair,” I said trying not to sound like they’d scared me half to death.

Hannah gave a snort and pirouetted.

“It grows really fast, Mama,” she said. “I got it cut right before my…initiation.”

I cocked my head and looked at her quizzically. “Initiation into what?”

Angela’s Library

“Bunch of hippies that believe slavery is wrong and are willing to fight for their beliefs,”she said inEnglish. “You’ll know them when you see them. They’ve started to wear beads in their hair. You have to earn your beads and we aren‘t old enough to go through the trials, yet.”

Sister.”How old?”she

time and stepped closer.”Much older, kid, but we

named her Kennedy. Would you Like to hold her?”

a low voice. “I know it’s customary on Earth, but here no one touches a talonless female other than the female breeder. It would be an insult for us to touch her.” That was surprising and I felt silly for offering, but Hannah soothed me quickly. “You know I’d Love

at me uneasily.

a favor,Mama,a

you

it was inEnglish,perfectly accented. Evidently Hannah had been teaching

women caught them. We

are like Daddy, Warriors, Mama. They will not be broken. We have

my head. Free men being killed set my stomach on edge. That was

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