Seed Wing Novels & Stories

He turned and scurried toward the corner bed, carefully clutching the seeds to his chest. Sienna moved around the circle, handing out small burlap sacks from her wicker baskets. The children eagerly reached out, receiving different seeds and different instructions. Some were given the stubborn, fibrous iron-root of the northern tundras. Others were given the delicate, moisture-rich sweet-grass of the river valleys.

Audrey commanded. Thousands of small, glowing pods were ejected from the Aethel-Seed. These weren't weapons, but "Cultural-Hard-Drives." Each one contained a fragment of the Union's "Sea of Glass" and a seedling of the Bronze-Leaf Oak. As they hit the surface of the dying planet, they didn't just land; they "Infected" the crust. They turned the de-materializing energy into a "Growth-Catalyst," using the Curators' own power to rebuild the world's atmosphere in a chaotic, violet-tinged image of Novus.

I only stopped when I finally stopped smelling medicine in the air and bought a bottle of water from a vending machine, gulping down most of it. Even as I came to my senses, I heard the boy in my belly talking to me. [Mommy! Help! She's killing me… She's eating everything, leaving me with nothing!] Hearing that voice, I was finally sure that this wasn't a dream. It was real, and I had reincarnated. - In my last life, I was married to Zach Spencer for five years but we never had children until he told me about Tina. She was his childhood friend and a gynecologist, and she had a miraculous treatment that could induce pregnancy right away.

the planet. But to make the Sovereign-Seed viable on a global scale, Avery needed a "Catalyst." She needed to introduce a human element into the seed’s DNA—a "Neural-Signature" that would tell the Sombra-Net that these plants were "Part of the Family," even if they weren't part of the "Link."