“Where’s everybody’s gone?” Amber asked, looking around the suddenly empty room.
“Yeah’s,” Jade added with a puzzled frown. “Mommy and Daddy says they’s was never taking their eyes off of us agains.”
“I’s thinks that’s Grandma is makings her baby,” Jabir said. “I’s heards mommy says it was almost finished cooking.”
“So’s who’s Aika… Aika… You’s knows, the lady you’s was talking about,” Roam asked with a frown. “I’s never heards of her before.”
“She’s a goddess,” Spring replied. “She’s gots lots of symbiots at her house. They’s told Phoenix they’s come from there.”
“Symbiots?” Bálint asked. “Likes ours?”
“Yes,” Phoenix replied. “There are rivers of them in the Hive.”
“Rivers?” Roam repeated, his eyes wide with delight. “Can’s Alice and I’s have one then? We’s don’t have a symbiot. It
