Our prey. A shudder rippled down Emily’s spine, and she had to fight not to recoil. It was one thing to have her suspicions, but to have Zaron confirm them so casually…
“I don’t understand,” she said, her mind racing. “How could human blood contain a hemoglobin your species needed? We would’ve had to evolve side by side with you, but you said the Krinar are much older than my kind. Unless…” She inhaled sharply. “Unless you had a species comparable to humans on your planet, and you manipulated our DNA so we’d be like them?”
“Very good,” Zaron said approvingly. “You’d make an excellent biologist. Yes, that’s exactly right. On Krina, there was a primate-like species called the lonar that my ancestors used to hunt. Their blood had the hemoglobin we needed. Unfortunately, they were weak and f
