They stood in a unreachable clearing within a dense patch of woodland;
a human town nestled in the valley close by
Their craft stood behind them hidden by a technology beyond human comprehension;
their latest experiment had heralded a pleasing result
They had successfully made contact with one of their sleeping operatives in the field
A ‘changeling’ who had been switched at birth with a human child...
Unbeknown to either the child or its parents it was of non-human origin
a result of a hybrid cloning project which involved several star systems in the universe.
The child had reached the age where the next stage in the development was necessary;
the human consciousness had to be merged with the alien;
and the merging monitored perfectly;
there had been a number of failures; humans developing ahead of their time ...
Extract taken from 'Thief Of Time' written by Matthew James Jan 2003
