Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“You ought’a come down to the party,” Tellow said, “I’mgoing to need some help after and it won’t be cleaning up.Kozike won’t be wanting any after giving birth, but I’m surethe other three will and I can’t do them all myself. Besides,this young karga is going to be a treat.”Alan would be quite a contrast to a big barrel chested guylike Tellow. “When will it be ready?” Alan asked.“Won’t be for an hour, but we have to give them time tocoo over the newborn.” They heard shrieking from across thebrook. “That must be him now.”“I guess,” It was excited girls voices. Those girls weren’tvery popular because their only topic of conversation wassupernatural forces, but by obsessing on a subject, you couldgive a cherub some semblance of a personality with only afew G of data base space, and by sharing it between four ofthem, he was able to get conversation he didn’t already knowwith enough personality to fool a casual observer. He alsothought that Jimina Valdez hid behind one of them now andthen. She would enjoy their conversation more than he did, asa nun she couldn’t voice her spiritualism without a gooddisguise. “So they know it’s a boy?”“They think so.”“Poor kid,” Alan said. Not that it mattered. Cherubs couldreproduce, so long as he had the allocation to run it. He wouldhave rather run the Desa or Kuthra cherub, but they took fiveQ each while an infant with most defaults selected can run inless than a G.66