I scowled down at him. “How’d it get here?”
He was serious now. “That’s the reason the government wants one so badly, Nap. They want to get it to their laboratories and find out everything they can. There only seems to be one possibility, though.”
“What’s that?”
“If it is alien to the solar system and from a white dwarf’s planet, it might have been brought here deliberately and left as a guinea pig.”
I began to say something there but he held up a hand to stop me. “Possibly an exploring spaceship from the alien planet was looking for colony sites. When it got to our solar system it left some of these animals with the idea of coming back in a few thousand years or so to see if the zloors were able to adapt themselves to the conditions existing here.”
I ran my tongue over suddenly dry l
