“Can’t elephants swim?”“Look at the water,” Jackie said shrilly. “Where are your folks? Mom and Dad? Uncle and Aunt?”“Mom and Dad died, like everybody else. “You swell up, one little bladder at a time, until you look like the Michelin man. But for me … well, you could say it’s a professional handicap.
The rest of her career was a fight to keep her job and the freezers full of mammoth fetuses and tissue. “No communication tool in history has ever been a single-edged sword. Our own scientists might replicate this act of genetic sculpting in any of two dozen excellent laboratories across the Confederacy—given several years, and a suitably impressive grant. But even then I knew enough of the structure of the mammalian nervous system to have some idea of what had regrown.
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