Third Watch
Acorna's Children
Chapter One
Now and Then
Now
Elviiz, with all of the time changes we've been through during our journey and the disappointment of not being able to get Mother and Father out of quarantine, we cannot sleep a wink. So we decided to go visit the LoiLoiKuans and see how they're settling in to their new home in our ocean with the sii-Linyaari. Please tell everyone so they won't worry. We'll be back before you know it.
Love,
Khorii, Ariin, and Khiindi, too. (You know how he is about fish.)
Khorii left the message on Elviiz's portable com—the one he needed now that he was fully organic and missing his critical android modifications.
Then, with the moons shining down on them, she and her twin walked down to the pearl-crested sea, Ariin carrying Khiindi.
"He'll walk if you want to put him down," Khorii told her twin. "We could stop to graze on the way. It would make our story more believable."
Ariin frowned. "He really does need to come with u ... read full excerpt from Third Watch ebook
