14 Chapter 14 Religious Purists (2/2)
Baring her teeth in anger, she slashed at its face, leaving a gash over one eye, that caused one eye ball to start leaking fluid.Its feathers began to quiver, but no noise came from it.Snarling, she bit its shoulder, and jumped back as it started spasming.
With a sigh, Dustin said, ”Oh, now you've done it.Our source of info is gone.”
Looking back at him in confusion, she caught sight of the dragon, with the foxes and lizards swarming over it, feasting to their hearts content, and realization dawned on her face.
”Our bite is that toxic?”She looked down at her hands, then at the dead Josagn.
”Yep.”
”You really have been busy.I don't think I want to know what you had to do to get that ability.”
”It wasn't fun, if that's what you're asking.”
Pulling the body free from the vines, they threw it into the bushes for the creatures around to enjoy.Dustin pulled the hunters bike out of the bushes to sit next to the one in the clearing.
”My PED is too low functioning to do a complete evolution into a different species.It needs two devices from the hunters, of which I now have, to get it to that point.But yours will need four devices to get it that far.”
”How long have they been using bow and arrows?” she asked, picking up the bow it had dropped on the ground.
”Since the first day I've been here, so today would be day three.”
”And I take it, none of the hunters have made it back to the shuttle bay?”
”No, why?”
”They'll assume you're harder prey, and start using more advanced weapons starting in the morning.”
”Then we don't have much time.I can upgrade your PED for you, like I did mine, but you have to give me a good reason not to just leave your butt here.”
”I know the Josagn.I can get us through that security and onto a ship away from here.”
”We'll need two more devices each, to get them upgraded enough to evolve us completely.What did that thing mean about us not being able to use their genetic material?”
”It's something they've coded into them.If they are the ones selling the evolution devices to the government, there's no telling what codes they've programmed into them.”
”I take it the Josagn are purist?”
”Religiously.I knew they had access to the devices, and loved to use them against other species in order to hunt things that are deadlier, but it never occurred to me that they would code it into them never to manipulate their own genetic makeup.”
”Well, we'll worry about that later.For now, we'll focus on the first couple of steps and worry about the later ones when we get there.”
”Alright.”