"Knives! Give it back!"

Knives smirked. "You have to catch me first, you thief!"

"But you didn't want it!"

"Well I do now!"

Rem and Rowan watched the kids play, the latter with a thoughtful frown.

"Walking and talking at barely four months. If that's not a new record, I don't know what is."

"Amazing, isn't it?" Rem turned to her colleague, dark eyes bright. "If they can do so much so early just think what they'll be capable of next year."

"Think they can power the terriform process?"

"I think if they can't, the next batch will."