author - "Karl Schroeder"

not monsters. That one was just trying to protect itself.""What was that silver stuff? It looked alive!" "Dad told me about that one time. The mothers protect themselves with it. He said the stuff goes towards whatever's wettest. He said he saw somebody get covered with it once; he died, but the stuff was still on him, so they got it off by dropping the body in a horse trough." Emmy shuddered. "That was an awful chance. Don't do anything like that again,