Leigh Kimmel’s Reviews > Lilith's Brood > Status Update

Discovering two humans, male and female, traveling together. They are wary, as resisters often are.

Talking with the resister who is now growing a new leg. His confusion at meeting a subadult construct ooloi -- and how it quickly turns to hostility, resulting in stern words about not insulting the parents of the one who has given him a new lease on life.

Our protagonist learns how to do advanced healing, turning humanity's old enemy of cancer into a gift that can in time grow an entire new limb.

Saying good-bye to Lo, this time for good. Avoiding the problem area -- but there's an archer who causes them trouble. Not worth going back to Lo with him to be transported to the ship, but they mark him so that he will find it difficult to gain allies.

Trying to convince the woman to go to an older, mated ooloi to have her genes adjusted so her daughters won't inherit a problem pelvis from her. Now the consequences to her assailants as everyone returns to Lo.

Discovering the attractive power of Humans -- and how easy it is for an ooloi, even an immature one, to make modifications in human gene plasm, for good or ill. And what it would mean to be mated to one -- starting with a brutally truncated lifespan.

Attacked by violent resisters who use a captured woman as bait. After her rescue, our protagonist is trying to come to grips with these acts, and what could possibly motivate intelligent beings to do such a thing to another of their kind in order to entrap a people who mean them no harm.

Saying goodbye to a beloved place, full of memories but now in ruins, thanks to the cruelty of others.

Leaving home and taking precautions. The difficulty of avoiding touch when one's neurology is exquisitely tuned to communication via touch, including very complex information via neural induction. But when touch can become deadly, the pain must be endured until one can master one's abilities so they help rather than harm.

Jodahs prepares to leave home and kin, trying to protect others from harm yet craving the very touch that can lead to doing harm.