Chapter One
Ren Hunter - Levanna Wildlife Reserve, Earth
Ren looked down at the three little bodies and sighed.
"They were doing really well," Cory said. "Until I found them this morning we had no idea they were ill."
Ren pushed a hand through her hair, combing out the tangles. This was a hideous start to a Monday morning. "This is the third litter of dead kingcat Cubs I've investigated in the last three months," she told him. "I'd better get to work."
Cory had put the cubs into a pen at one end of the kingcat house. The mother was at the other end of the row. Ren watched the animal pacing back and forth. She was a mature kingcat, slightly larger than the king cheetah she was descended from. Her black back stripe was unusually broad, and she had more than the usual number of dark blotches on her tawny coat. She constantly raised her head and uttered contact calls. The sound seemed mournful to Ren, as if the cat knew her cubs were dead but wasn't ready to accept it.
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