“Sure,” replied Sam,” just help yourself.” They had cleared the southern tip of Denver's city limits now. Adam took them onto State Highway 85, heading toward a town called Sedalia, avoiding the need to use I25 with its ever-watchful traffic cameras. Despite the fact the road was small and narrow in places, the lack of traffic still enabled them to progress at a fairly decent pace. The roads here were clear and dry; the storm which had hammered them earlier had petered out just south of Denver. Oriyanna returned to her seat and took a mouthful of water before screwing the cap back onto the bottle. “From the records we have of those first missions,” she continued, “we know they carried out genetic testing on the Genus Homo creatures that they took. It showed them to be what we call an evol

