CHAPTER XIX
“What are you going to do with that girl?” Brainard asked.
“Formalize our mating as soon as she is able to get out of bed,” Kennon replied.
“She is an ignorant, untrained savage!” Brainard protested. “You should hear the stories the nurses tell about her!”
Kennon chuckled. “You don’t have to tell me about those. I’ve lived with Lani for two years. But she’s not stupid.”
“What are your plans?”
“After we establish her humanity legally,” Kennon said, “I’m going to send her to school.”
“For twenty years?”
“If necessary. But I don’t think it will take that long. She has some schooling.”
“But no training—and what of the Lani in the meantime?”
“I have plans for that. I’m going back to Kardon and give Alexander a chance to make restitution. I think he is an honorable man. Sla
