when humans are not around to hear.
On the coastal edge of the Great Laurentian Rewilding, as an unofficial satellite of Pine Barrens Urbmon Number Seven—colloquially called by its residents “the Badabing”—stood a small laboratory, a plain white windowless blockhouse. The building had to be separated from the main habitation, where nearly a million people lived, due to the sometimes dangerous nature of its researches. The lab was surrounded by a moat of smart gel and various electronic, chemical, drone and silicrobe defenses and barriers.
Inside the lab one summer day could be found two chromosartors, a man and a woman. The man was named Angus Woodman and the woman was named Mapinta Damas. They were having an argument.
“You should never have crispered such a suite of genes together in t
