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idea of enhancing the musculature of any of the space people who would rather settle on earth than go
exploring or wait to see whether their ecology can survive. And who knows? Maybe it will, now."
"Did Della get our message?"
Whitmire smiled. "She did. She's already undergoing the treatments. By the time we get organized
to support your colony, she should be able to come down. She's bringing Sean's pets with her, by the
way."
"How about Sean? I told Della in my message that we'd like to have him along as well."
"You haven't heard?"
"Heard what?"
Sean is now the number two man in Moon City, right behind that woman, Selene. He's the one who
finally convinced the space folks to agree to all our proposals. I don't think he'll be coming any time soon.
He can't be spared, even if he wanted to."
Well, Jamie thought, two men and three women. That was a start, and he felt sure that Masters
would convince some of his rangers to join them. Anyway, it would be the pets that would make the
enterprise a viable project, if it succeeded at all. He was just a player, and he would go along with
whatever happened.
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The floater drifted down, bringing Della to join the others already living in the wilds. The
prefabricated huts formed a circle in a little valley, a lonely outpost in a pet-plagued world, but there was
hope, now. Somehow, the feral animals and humans would learn to live together.
Fuzzy Britches scampered out to meet her as the floater landed, another addition to his brave new
world. If anyone could make it work, it would be Fuzzy Britches.
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