Excerpts

Excerpt I
Prologue
The clouds were streaming from beyond the Western Hills like a massive flotilla being launched from a distant, unseen harbor. Large clusters of various sizes moved steadily toward the east, pushed by the wind, slowly reducing the sunlight to a few rays and giving the cloudy sky an opaque glow. The west wind moved down into the valley, gently stirring the trees, plants, and grass. ..
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Excerpt II
Chapter Two
On subsequent hunting missions, Amanda flew solo, wandering deep into the woodland forests, seeking her favorite prey: moth and beetle larvae. Not only did she seek out oak and maple trees, but cedar, cypress, and fir trees in the higher elevations of the Western Hills..
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Excerpt III
The fall destroyed the lower tiers, which had been at least sixty feet from the ground. Although a few newborns were born and freed from their cells, all the rest of the eggs, larvae, and pupae, numbering a couple thousand, were killed...
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